The Yomiuri Prize for Literature (読売文学賞, Yomiuri Bungaku Shō) is a literary award in Japan. The prize was founded in 1949 by the Yomiuri Shinbun Company to help form a "cultural nation". The winner is awarded two million Japanese yen and an inkstone.
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.
Award winners
Fiction
Drama
| Year |
Winner |
Winning entry |
|---|
| 1951 |
Jūrō Miyoshi |
Honō no hito, etc. |
| 1952 |
Tsuneari Fukuda |
Ryū o nadeta otoko |
| 1954 |
Chikao Tanaka |
Selection of works including "Kyōiku" |
| 1961 |
Yukio Mishima |
Toka no Kiku |
| 1964 |
Mitsuo Nakamura |
Kiteki issei |
| 1965 |
Hideji Hōjō |
Selected plays of Hideji Hōjō |
| 1967 |
Tadasu Iizawa |
Gonin no moyono |
| 1972 |
Seiichi Yashiro |
Sharaku-kō |
| 1974[4] |
Kōbō Abe |
Midoriiro no sutokkingu (The green stockings) |
| 1975 |
Matsuyo Akimoto |
Nananin no misaki |
| 1978 |
Junji Kinoshita |
Shigosen no matsuri |
| 1979 |
Hisashi Inoue |
Shimijimi nihon – Nogi-taishō, Kobayashi Issa |
| 1983 |
Kunio Shimizu |
Elegy |
| 1984 |
Masakazu Yamazaki |
Oedipus shōten |
| 1987 |
Minoru Betsuyaku |
Shokoku o henreki suru futari no kishi no monogatari |
| 1990 |
Kouhei Tsuka |
Hiryūden ’90 – satsuriku no aki |
| 1992 |
Tsutsumi Harue |
Kanadehon Hamlet |
| 1994 |
Yoshiyuki Fukuda |
Watashi no downtown – Haha no shashin |
| 1995 |
Jūichiro Takeuchi |
Tsuki no hikari |
| 1997 |
Ryo Iwamatsu |
TV Days |
| 1997 ! |
Nozomi Makino |
Tokyo genshikaku club |
| 1998[5] |
Matsuda Masataka |
Natsu no suna no ue (Over Summer Sands) |
| 2000 |
Ai Nagai |
Hagi-ke no sanshimai |
| 2001 |
Kankurō Kudō |
GO |
| 2002 |
Sakate Yôji |
Yaneura (The Attic) |
| 2003[3] |
Kara Jûrô |
Doro ningyo (Mud Mermaid) |
| 2005 |
Hishida Shinya |
Powder - oshiroi |
| 2006 |
Miwa Nishikawa |
Yureru |
| 2006 ! |
Noda Hideki |
Rope |
| 2007 |
Kōki Mitani |
Confidant - Kizuna |
| 2008 |
Kundō Koyama |
Okuribito |
| 2009 |
Shoji Kokami |
Globe Jungle Kyokō no gekidan hataage 3 busaku |
| 2011 |
Tomohiro Maekawa |
Taiyō |
| 2012 |
Yang Yong-hi |
Kazoku no kuni |
|
Poetry & haiku
| Year |
Winner |
Winning entry |
|---|
| 1966[6] |
Yuji Kinoshita |
TREELIKE |
| 1993 |
Akiko Baba |
Akobu |
| 1999[5] |
Nagata Kazuhiro |
Aiba |
|
Mutsuo Takahashi |
|
| 2003[3] |
Hasegawa Kai |
Kyokû (Emptiness) |
| 2004[7] |
Kuriki Kyôko |
Natsu no ushiro (In Back of Summer) |
|
Essay & Travelogue
| Year |
Winner |
Winning entry |
|---|
| 1967[8] |
Ikuma Dan |
sei/zoku 'Paipu no Kemuri'(正/続「パイプのけむり」) |
|
| 1988[9] |
Kazuo Mizuta |
On the Pacific Age -- Promoting a Pacific University |
| 1999[5] |
None awarded |
| 2003[3] |
Mikirō Sasaki |
Ajia kaidô kikô (A Travel Journal of the Asian Seaboard) |
| 2004[7] |
Wakashima Tadashi |
Ranshidokusha no Ei-Bei tanpen kôgi (An Astigmatic Reader's Lectures on British and American Short Fiction) |
|
Criticism & biography
| Year |
Winner |
Winning entry |
|---|
| 1999[5] |
Tanabe Seiko |
Dôtonbori no ame ni wakarete irai nari (Since Parting in the Rain at Dotombori) |
| 2003[3] |
Noguchi Takehiko |
Bakumatsu kibun (That Late-Bakufu Feeling) |
| 2004[7] |
umano Mitsuyoshi |
Yûtopia bungaku ron (On Utopian Literature) |
|
Scholarship and translation
| Year |
Winner |
Winning entry |
|---|
| 1999[5] |
Yûhi Takashi |
Edo shiika-ron (Edo Period Poetry) |
| (Translated by) Kudô Yukio |
Burûno Shurutsu zenshû (The Collected Works of Bruno Shultz) |
| 2003[3] |
Takematsu Yûichi |
Igirisu kindaishi hô (Modern British Poetry) |
| 2004[7] |
Tanizawa Eiichi |
Bungôtachi no ôgenka (Great Fights Between the Literary Masters) |
| 2008[10] |
(Translated by) Noriaki Oshikawa |
Rumah Kaca (Glass House) |
See also
- List of Japanese literary awards
References
External links