Manhae Prize
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The Manhae Prize is a series of awards in the following categories; Peace, Social Service, Academic Excellence, Art, Literature, and Buddhist Missionary Work awarded by The Society for the Promotion and Practice of Manhae's Thoughts in memory of Buddhist reformer and anti-Japanese independence activist Han Yong-un (1879–1944).
Awardees
Selected awardees with Wikipedia entries:
Peace prize winners
- 2013 Dagon Taryar from Myanmar[1]
- 2009 Shirin Ebadi Iranian Human Rights Advocate, Winner of Nobel Prize for Peace
- 2008 Lokamitra (Jeremy Goody), member of the Triratna Buddhist Community
Practise prize winners
- 2012 Kurt Gribl Lawyer and Mayor of the Friedensstadt (Peace city) Augsburg, Germany
Literature prize winners
- 2012 Kim Jay Hong
- 2011 Mo Yan
- 2010 Joint winners: John Ralston Saul President of International PEN，[2] Jeong Jin-gyu editor of Modern Poetry, Seoul.
- 2009 Joint winners: Robert Hass, Kim Jong-gil
- 2008 Lee Eo-ryeong
- 2007 Kim Namjo
- 2006 Hwang Dong-gyu
- 2005 Wole Soyinka,
- 2004 Hong Seok-jung, first DPRK author.
- 2003 Cho Jeong-rae
- 2002 Shin Kyung-rim
- 2001 Lee Hung-ki
- 2000 Oh Se-young
- 1999 Chung Wan-young
- 1998 Ko Un poet
- 1990 Hyun Ki-young novelist
References
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