Yomiuri Prize

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 "strong cultural nation". The winner is awarded two million Japanese yen and an inkstone.

Yomiuri Prize for Literature
読売文学賞 (Yomiuri Bungaku Shō)
Awarded forBest new literary works
Date1949 (1949)
CountryJapan
Presented byYomiuri Shimbun
Reward(s)¥2,000,000, inkstone
First awarded1949
Last awarded2018
Websiteinfo.yomiuri.co.jp/contest/clspgl/bungaku.html

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

The Yomiuri Shimbun maintains an official list of current and past prize recipients.[1]

Fiction

Year[2] Winner Winning entry
1949 Masuji Ibuse Honjitsu Kyushin (本日休診)
1950 Kōji Uno Omigawa (思ひ川, River of Thought)
1951 Shōhei Ōoka Nobi (Fires on the Plain)
1952 Hiroyuki Agawa Haru no shiro (Citadel in Spring)
1953 No award
1954 Haruo Satō (Shōshi Mandara)
1955Ton SatomiKoigokoro
Aya KōdaKuroi suso
1956Yukio MishimaKinkakuji (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion)
Mantarō KubotaSan no tori
1957Murō SaiseiAnzukko
Yaeko NogamiMeiro
1958No award
1959Hakuchō MasamuneKotoshi no aki
Shigeharu NakanoNashi no hana
1960Shigeru TonomuraMiotsukushi
1961No award
1962 Kōbō Abe Suna no Onna (The Woman in the Dunes)
1963Yasushi InoueFūtō
1964Akatsuki KambayashiShiroi yakatabune
1965[3] Junzo Shono Yube no Kumo (Evening Clouds)
1966Fumio NiwaIchiro
1967Kiku AminoIchigo-ichie
1968Taeko KōnoFui no koe (不意の声, A Sudden Voice)
Kōsaku TakiiYashu
1969Haruto KōIchijō no hikari
Tan OnumaKaichūdokei
1970Ken'ichi YoshidaGareki no naka
1971No award
1972Tatsuo NagaiCochabamba-yuki
1973Tsuneko NakazatoUtamakura
Shōtarō YasuokaHashire tomahōku
1974Yoshie WadaTsugiki no dai
1975Kazuo DanKataku no hito
Junnosuke YoshiyukiKaban no nakami
1976Yoshinori YagiKazamatsuri
1977Toshio ShimaoShi no toge
1978Noguchi FujioKakute arikeri
1979Toshimasa ShimamuraMyōkō no aki
1980No award
1981Hisashi InoueKirikirijin
Ryōtarō ShibaHitobito no ashioto
1982Kenzaburō ŌeAme no ki (Rain Tree)
1983No award
1984[4] Akira Yoshimura Hagoku (Prison Break)
1985 Takako Takahashi Ikari no ko (Child of Wrath)
Hideo TakuboKaizu
1986Yūko TsushimaYoru no hikari ni owarete
1987Tatsuhiko ShibusawaTakaoka Shinnō kōkaiki
1988Takehiro IrokawaKyōjin nikki
1989Yūichi TakaiYoru no ari
Yoshikichi FuruiKari ōjōden shibun
1990Toshio MoriuchiHyōga ga kuru made ni
1991Hiroshi SakagamiYasashii teihakuchi
Sō AonoHaha yo
1992Eisuke NakazonoPeking hanten kyūkan nite
1993No award
1994Momoko IshiiMaboroshi no akai mi
Senji KuroiKāten kōru
1995Keizō HinoHikari
Haruki MurakamiNejimakidori kuronikuru (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle)
1996No award
1997Ryū MurakamiIn za miso-sūpu (In the Miso Soup)
Nobuo KojimaUruwashiki hibi
1998Kunio OgawaHashisshi gyangu (The Hashish Gang)
Noboru TsujiharaTobe kirin (Fly, Kirin!)
1999Yasutaka TsutsuiWatashi no gurampa
Taku MikiHadashi to kaigara
2000Naoyuki IiNigotta gekiryū ni kakaru hashi (A Bridge over a Muddy Torrent)
Amy YamadaA2Z
2001Anna OginoHorafuki-Anri no bōken
2002Minae Mizumura[5]Honkaku shōsetsu (A True Novel)
2003Yōko OgawaHakase no aishita sūshiki (The Housekeeper and the Professor)
2004Hisaki MatsuuraHantō
2005Toshiyuki HorieKagan bōjitsushō
Katsusuke MiyauchiShōshin
2006No award
2007Rieko MatsuuraKenshin
2008Sou KurokawaKamome no hi
2009Kaoru TakamuraTaiyō o hiku uma
2010Natsuo KirinoNanika aru
2011No award
2012Yoko TawadaKumo o tsukamu hanashi
Masashi MatsuieKazan no fumuto de
2013Kiyoko MurataYūjōko
2014Hiromi KawakamiSuisei
Tomoyuki HoshinoYoru wa owaranai
2015Hideo FurukawaOnna-tachi sanbyaku-nin no uragiri no sho (女たち三百人の裏切りの書)
2016Hideo LevyMohankyo (模範郷)
2017Akira HigashiyamaBoku ga koroshita hito to boku o koroshita hito (僕が殺した人と僕を殺した人)
2018Keiichirō HiranoAru otoko (ある男)

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[6] 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
Nozomi Makino Tokyo genshikaku club
1998[7] 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[5] Kara Jûrô Doro ningyo (Mud Mermaid)
2005 Hishida Shinya Powder – oshiroi
2006 Miwa Nishikawa Yureru
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 and haiku

Year[2] Winner Winning entry (Genre)
1949 Mokichi Saitō Tomoshibi (Tanka)
Shinpei Kusano Kaeru no shi (Free Verse)
1950 Kōtarō Takamura Tenkei (Free Verse)
Yaichi Aizu Aizu Yaichi zenkashū (Tanka)
1951 Satarō Satō Kichō (Tanka)
1952 Haruo Satō Satō Haruo zenshishū (Free Verse)
1953 Takashi Matsumoto Ishidamashii (Haiku)
Mitsuharu Kaneko Ningen no higeki (Free verse)
1954 Hakyō Ishida Teihon Ishida Hakyō zenkushū (Haiku)
1955 No award
1956 Junzaburō Nishiwaki Dai-san no shinwa (Free verse)
1966 Yuji Kinoshita TREELIKE
1969 Ryuta Iida Forget (Haiku)
1987 Mutsuo Takahashi Keiko onjiki (Tanka & haiku)
Hirohiko Okano Ame no Tazumura (Tanka)
1993 Akiko Baba Akobu
1999[7] Nagata Kazuhiro Aiba
2003[5] Kai Hasegawa Kyoku (Emptiness)
2004[8] Kyōko Kuriki Natsu no ushiro (In Back of Summer)
2017[9] Jeffrey Angles Watashi no hizukehenkōsen (My International Date Line)

Essay and Travelogue

Year Winner Winning entry
1967[10] Ikuma Dan sei/zoku 'Paipu no Kemuri'(正/続「パイプのけむり」)
1971[11] Ibuse Masuji Waseda no Mori (The Woods around Waseda University)
1988[12] Kazuo Mizuta On the Pacific Age—Promoting a Pacific University
1999[7] None awarded
2003[5] Mikirō Sasaki Ajia kaidô kikô (A Travel Journal of the Asian Seaboard)
2004[8] Wakashima Tadashi Ranshidokusha no Ei-Bei tanpen kôgi (An Astigmatic Reader's Lectures on British and American Short Fiction)
2009 Keijiro Suga Shasen no tabi (Transversal Journeys)

Criticism and biography

Year Winner Winning entry
1999[7] Seiko Tanabe Dôtonbori no ame ni wakarete irai nari (Since Parting in the Rain at Dotombori)
2003[5] Takehiko Noguchi Bakumatsu kibun (That Late-Bakufu Feeling)
2004[8] Mitsuyoshi Numano Yūtopia bungaku ron (On Utopian Literature)

Scholarship and translation

Year Winner Winning entry
1990[2] (Translated by) Noriko Ibaragi Kankoku gendai shi sen (「韓国現代詩選」)
1999[7] 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[8] Tanizawa Eiichi Bungôtachi no ôgenka (Great Fights Between the Literary Masters)
2008[13] (Translated by) Noriaki Oshikawa Rumah Kaca (Glass House)

See also

References

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