Yomiuri Prize

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The Yomiuri Prize for Literature (Japanese: Yomiuri Bungaku Shō) is a prestigious literary award. The prize was founded in 1948 by the Yomiuri Shinbun Company to help form a "cultural nation". The winner is awarded one million Japanese yen and an ink stone.

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[edit] Award categories

For the first two years, awards were granted in four categories: novels and plays, poetry, literary criticism, and scholarly studies. In 1950, novels and plays were split to form a total of five categories. This was further reorganized in 1966 to form six categories: novels, plays, essays and travel journals, criticism and biography, poetry, and academic studies and translation.

[edit] Award winners

[edit] Fiction

Year Winner Winning entry
1952 Ooka Shohei Fires on the Plain (Nobi)
1957 Yukio Mishima The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Kinkakuji)
1962 Kobo Abe Woman in the Dunes (Sunna no Onna)
1965[1] Junzo Shono Yube no Kumo (Evening Clouds)
1969 Kono Taeko Fui no Koe (不意の声, A Sudden Voice)
1978 Shigehiko Hasumi
1984[2] Akira Yoshimura Hagoku (Prison Break)
1985 Takako Takahashi Ikari no ko (Child of wrath)
1996 Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
1998[3] Kunio Ogawa
1999[4] Ogawa Kunio & Hashissu gangu (The Hashish Gang)
Tsujihara Noboru Tobe kirin (Fly, Kirin!)
Ikezawa Natsuki Tanoshi Shumatsu (Ending with Happiness)
2000 Naoyuki Ii Nigotta gekiryu ni kakaru hashi (A Bridge over a Muddy Torrent)
2003[5] Mizumura Minae Honkaku shôsetsu (A Real Novel)
2004[6] Ogawa Yôko Hakase no aishita sûshiki (The Professor's Formula for Success)

[edit] Drama

Year Winner Winning entry
1961 Yukio Mishima Toka no Kiku
1974[7] Kobo Abe Midoriiro no sutokkingo (The green stockings)
1993 Tsutsumi Harue Kanadehon Hamlet
1995[8] Ping Chong Undesirable Elements
1999[4] Matsuda Masataka Natsu no suna no ue (Over Summer Sands)
2003[5] Sakate Yôji Yaneura (The Attic)
2004[6] Kara Jûrô Doro ningyo (Mud Mermaid)

[edit] Poetry & haiku

Year Winner Winning entry
1966[9] Yuji Kinoshita TREELIKE
1999[4] Nagata Kazuhiro Aiba
Mutsuo Takahashi
2003[5] Hasegawa Kai Kyokû (Emptiness)
2004[6] Kuriki Kyôko Natsu no ushiro (In Back of Summer)

[edit] Essay & Travelogue

Year Winner Winning entry
1988[10] Kazuo Mizuta On the Pacific Age -- Promoting a Pacific University
1999[4] None awarded
2003[5] Sasaki Mikirô Ajia kaidô kikô (A Travel Journal of the Asian Seaboard)
2004[6] Wakashima Tadashi Ranshidokusha no Ei-Bei tanpen kôgi (An Astigmatic Reader's Lectures on British and American Short Fiction)


[edit] Criticism & biography

Year Winner Winning entry
1999[4] Tanabe Seiko Dôtonbori no ame ni wakarete irai nari (Since Parting in the Rain at Dotombori)
2003[5] Noguchi Takehiko Bakumatsu kibun (That Late-Bakufu Feeling)
2004[6] umano Mitsuyoshi Yûtopia bungaku ron (On Utopian Literature)


[edit] Scholarship and translation

Year Winner Winning entry
1999[4] Yûhi Takashi Edo shiika-ron (Edo Period Poetry)
(Translated by) Kudô Yukio Burûno Shurutsu zenshû (The Collected Works of Bruno Shultz)
2003[5] Takematsu Yûichi Igirisu kindaishi hô (Modern British Poetry)
2004[6] Tanizawa Eiichi Bungôtachi no ôgenka (Great Fights Between the Literary Masters)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Shono
  2. ^ Yoshimura
  3. ^ Ogawa
  4. ^ a b c d e f 1999 Winners
  5. ^ a b c d e f 2003 Winners
  6. ^ a b c d e f 2004 Winners
  7. ^ iBiblio.org
  8. ^ Chong
  9. ^ Kinoshita
  10. ^ Mizuta

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