Noma Literary Prize

Not to be confused with the Noma Literacy Prize

Noma Literary Prize
Awarded for	Literary award
Presented by	Noma Service Association
Country	Japan
First awarded	1941

The Noma Literary Prize (Noma Bungei Shō) was established in 1941 by the Noma Service Association (Noma Hōkō Kai) in accordance with the last wishes of Noma Seiji (1878-1938), founder and first president of the Kōdansha publishing company. The Noma Literary Prize has been awarded annually to an outstanding new work published in Japan between October and the following September. The Noma Prize includes a commemorative plaque and a cash award of 3 million yen.^[1] It is one in a series of Noma Prizes.

Contents

1 Select recipients
2 See also
3 Notes
4 References

Select recipients

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Noma Literary Prize

1 1941 — Seika Mayama
2 1942 — No Award
3 1943 — Kōda Rohan
4 1944 — No Award
5 1946 — Mimei Ogawa
6 1953 — Fumio Niwa for Hebi to hato
7 1954 — Yasunari Kawabata for Yama no oto (The Sound of the Mountain)
8 1955 — No Award
9 1956 — Shigeru Tonomura for Ikada
10 1957 — Fumiko Enchi for Onnnazaka (The Waiting Years), and Chiyo Uno for Ohan
11 1958 — Hideo Kobayashi for Kindai kaiga
12 1959 — Saisei Murou for Kagerou no nikki ibun
13 1960 — Shotaro Yasuoka for Umibe no kokei, Tomie Ohara (for En to iu onna (A Woman called En).^[2]
14 1961 — Yasushi Inoue for Yodo dono no nikki
15 1962 — Kazuo Ozaki for Maboroshi no ki
16 1963 — Hirotsu Kazuo for Nengetsu no ashioto
17 1964 — Gishu Nakayama for Shoan, and Jun Takami for Shi no fuchi yori
18 1965 — Tatsuo Nagai for Ikko sono hoka
19 1966 — Nagai Tatsuo for Kuroi Gohan (Black Rice).
20 1967 — Mitsuo Nakamura for Nise no shozo, and Seiichi Funabashi for Sukina onnna no munakazari
21 1968 — Tetsutaro Kawakami for Yoshida Shoin
22 1969 — Shigeharu Nakano for Kootsuheitei
23 1970 — Ken'ichi Yoshida for Yoroppa no seikimatsu, and Jun Eto for Soseki to sono jidai
24 1971 — Junzo Shono for Eawase (Picture Cards).^[3]
25 1972 — Ineko Sata for Juei (The Shade of Trees).^[4]
26 1973 — Kenzaburō Ōe for The Flood invades my spirit (洪水はわが魂に及び, Kōzui wa waga tamashii ni oyobi^?)
27 1974 — Shōhei Ōoka for Nakahara Chuya
28 1975 — Ken Hirano for Samazama na seishun, and Kazuo Ozaki for Anoh hi kono hi
29 1976 — Taijun Takeda for Memai no suru sanpo, and Tetsuo Miura for Kenju to jyugo no tanpen
30 1977 — Kenzo Nakajima for Kaiso no bungaku
31 1978 — Junnosuke Yoshiyuki for Yugure made
32 1979 — Shizuo Fujieda for Kanashii dake
33 1980 — Shusaku Endo for Samurai
34 1981 — Kenkichi Yamamoto for Inochi to katachi
35 1982 — Nobuo Kojima for Wakareru riyu
36 1983 — Fumio Niwa for Rennyo
37 1984 — No Award
38 1985 — Toshio Shimao for Gyoraitei gakusei, and Saiichi Maruya for Chushingura towa nanika
39 1986 — Miyoji Ueda for SHIMAKI Akahiko, Minako Oba for Naku tori no (Birds, Crying).^[5]
40 1987 — Atsushi Mori for Ware yuku mono no gotoku
41 1988 — Shotaro Yasuoka for Boku no showashi (3 vols.)
42 1989 — Yasushi Inoue for Koshi
43 1990 — Gin'ichi Sakaki for Watashi no Chehov
44 1991 — Taeko Kono for Miira tori ryookitan (The Strange Tale of a "Mummy Hunter").^[6]
45 1992 — Hiroshi Sakagami for Denen fukei
46 1993 — Keizo Hino for Taifu no me
47 1994 — Hiroyuki Agawa for Shiga Naoya, and Kaisei Ri for Hyakunen no tabibito tachi
48 1995 — No Award
49 1996 — Shun Akiyama for Nobunaga
50 1997 — Hideo Takubo for Kodamashu, and Taeko Tomioka for Hiberuniato kiko
51 1998 — Yuko Tsushima for Hinoyama
52 1999 — Kiyooka Takuyuki for Maronie no hana ga itta
53 2000 — Kyoko Hayashi for Nagai zikan wo kaketa ningen no keiken
54 2001 — Jakucho Setouchi for Basho
55 2002 — Yuichi Takai for 時の潮
56 2003 — Hiroko Takenishi for Zoto no Uta
57 2004 — Takashi Tsujii for Chichi no Shozo
58 2005 — Ryū Murakami for Hanto wo Deyo
59 2006 — Senji Kuroi for 一日夢の柵
60 2007 — Kazumi Saeki for Norge
61 2008 — Kō Machida for Yadoya Meguri

Noma Literary New Face Prize

07 1985 — Mizuko Masuda for Jiyū Jikan (Free Hours).^[7]
23 2001 — Sonoe Dougaki for Veracruz, Hiroko Shimizu for Shohosen
24 2002 — Mitsuharu Sagawa for Chijinda Ai, Su Wakai for Kaiba no Joso
25 2003 — Rio Shimamoto for Little By Little, Tomoyuki Hoshino for Fantasista
26 2004 — Ko Nakamura for Guru-Guru Mawaru Suberidai, Fuminori Nakamura for Shako
27 2005 — Jungo Aoki for 四十日と四十夜のメルヘン, Toshiko Hirata for Futarinori
28 2006 — Masaya Nakahara for Na mo Naki Koji tachi no Haka
29 2007 — Maki Kashimada for ピカルディーの三度, Kenta Nishimura for Ankyo no Yado
30 2008 — Kikuko Tsumura for Music Bless You!!

Noma Children's Literature Prize

39 2001 — Mitsuru Hanagata for Giri-Giri Triangle
41 2003 — Hiroshi Ito for Osaru no Mori
42 2004 — Nahoko Uehashi for Koteki no Kanata
46 2008 — Naoko Kudo for Nohara no Uta 5

Noma Children's Literature New Face Prize

This prize was last awarded in 1998.

09 1971 — Rie Yoshiyuki for Mahōtsukai no kushan neko (Sneezing Cat, a Magician).^[8]
33 1995 — Eto Mori for Uchu no Minashigo
34 1996 — Nahoko Uehashi for Seirei no Moribito

See also

Notes

^ Japanese literature website: Literary awards
^ Schierbeck, Sachiko Shibata et al. (1994). Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century: 104 Biographies, 1900-1993, p. 101.
^ Shono bio.
^ Schierbeck, p. 57.
^ Schierbeck, p. 219.
^ Schierbeck, p. 175.
^ Schierbeck, p. 261.
^ Schierbeck, p. 247.

References

Schierbeck, Sachiko Shibata, Marlene R Edelstein. (1994). Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century: 104 Biographies, 1900-1993. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. 10-ISBN 8-772-89268-4; 13-ISBN 978-8-772-89268-9; OCLC 32348453

Japanese literary awards