The is a literary award in Japan. The prize was founded in 1949 by the Yomiuri Shimbun Company to help form a "strong 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 The Yomiuri Shimbun maintains an official list of current and past prize recipients.
Fiction YearWinnerWinning entry1949Masuji Ibuse1950Kōji UnoOmigawa (思ひ川, River of Thought)1951Shōhei ŌokaNobi (Fires on the Plain)1952Hiroyuki AgawaHaru no shiro (Citadel in Spring)1953No award1954Haruo Satō(Shōshi Mandara)1955 Ton Satomi Koigokoro Aya Kōda Kuroi suso1956 Yukio Mishima Kinkakuji (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion) Mantarō Kubota San no tori1957 Murō Saisei Anzukko Yaeko Nogami Meiro1958 1959 Hakuchō Masamune Kotoshi no aki Shigeharu Nakano Nashi no hana1960 Shigeru Tonomura Miotsukushi1961 1962Kōbō AbeSuna no Onna (The Woman in the Dunes)1963 Yasushi Inoue Fūtō1964 Akatsuki Kambayashi Shiroi yakatabune1965Shono Junzo ShonoYube no Kumo (Evening Clouds)1966 Fumio Niwa Ichiro1967 Kiku Amino Ichigo-ichie1968 Taeko Kōno Fui no koe (不意の声, A Sudden Voice) Kōsaku Takii Yashu1969 Haruto Kō Ichijō no hikari Tan Onuma Kaichūdokei1970 Ken'ichi Yoshida Gareki no naka1971 1972 Tatsuo Nagai Cochabamba-yuki1973 Tsuneko Nakazato Utamakura Shōtarō Yasuoka Hashire tomahōku1974 Yoshie Wada Tsugiki no dai1975 Kazuo Dan Kataku no hito Junnosuke Yoshiyuki Kaban no nakami1976 Yoshinori Yagi Kazamatsuri1977 Toshio Shimao Shi no toge1978 Noguchi Fujio Kakute arikeri1979 Toshimasa Shimamura Myōkō no aki1980 1981 Hisashi Inoue Kirikirijin Ryōtarō Shiba Hitobito no ashioto1982 Kenzaburō Ōe Ame no ki (Rain Tree)1983 1984Yoshimura Akira YoshimuraHagoku (Prison Break)1985Takako TakahashiIkari no ko (Child of Wrath) Hideo Takubo Kaizu1986 Yūko Tsushima Yoru no hikari ni owarete1987 Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Takaoka Shinnō kōkaiki1988 Takehiro Irokawa Kyōjin nikki1989 Yūichi Takai Yoru no ari Yoshikichi Furui Kari ōjōden shibun1990 Toshio Moriuchi Hyōga ga kuru made ni1991 Hiroshi Sakagami Yasashii teihakuchi Sō Aono Haha yo1992 Eisuke Nakazono Peking hanten kyūkan nite1993 1994 Momoko Ishii Maboroshi no akai mi Senji Kuroi Kāten kōru1995 Keizō Hino Hikari Haruki Murakami Nejimakidori kuronikuru (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle)1996 1997 Ryū Murakami In za miso-sūpu (In the Miso Soup) Nobuo Kojima Uruwashiki hibi1998 Kunio Ogawa Hashisshi gyangu (The Hashish Gang) Noboru Tsujihara Tobe kirin (Fly, Kirin!)1999 Yasutaka Tsutsui Watashi no gurampa Taku Miki Hadashi to kaigara2000 Naoyuki Ii Nigotta gekiryū ni kakaru hashi (A Bridge over a Muddy Torrent) Amy Yamada A2Z2001 Anna Ogino Horafuki-Anri no bōken2002 Minae Mizumura2003 Winners Honkaku shōsetsu (A True Novel)2003 Yōko Ogawa Hakase no aishita sūshiki (The Housekeeper and the Professor)2004 Hisaki Matsuura Hantō2005 Toshiyuki Horie Kagan bōjitsushō Katsusuke Miyauchi Shōshin2006 2007 Rieko Matsuura Kenshin2008 Sou Kurokawa Kamome no hi2009 Kaoru Takamura Taiyō o hiku uma2010 Natsuo Kirino Nanika aru2011 2012 Yoko Tawada Kumo o tsukamu hanashi Masashi Matsuie Kazan no fumuto de2013 Kiyoko Murata Yūjōko2014 Hiromi Kawakami Suisei Tomoyuki Hoshino Yoru wa owaranai2015 Hideo Furukawa 2016 Hideo Levy 2017 Akira Higashiyama 2018 Keiichiro Hirano
Drama YearWinnerWinning entry1951Jūrō MiyoshiHonō no hito, etc.1952Tsuneari FukudaRyū o nadeta otoko1954Chikao TanakaSelection of works including "Kyōiku"1961Yukio MishimaToka no Kiku1964Mitsuo NakamuraKiteki issei1965Hideji HōjōSelected plays of Hideji Hōjō1967Tadasu IizawaGonin no moyono1972Seiichi YashiroSharaku-kō1974iBiblio.org Kōbō AbeMidoriiro no sutokkingu (The green stockings)1975Matsuyo AkimotoNananin no misaki1978Junji KinoshitaShigosen no matsuri1979Hisashi InoueShimijimi nihon – Nogi-taishō, Kobayashi Issa1983Kunio ShimizuElegy1984Masakazu YamazakiOedipus shōten1987Minoru BetsuyakuShokoku o henreki suru futari no kishi no monogatari1990Kouhei TsukaHiryūden ’90 – satsuriku no aki1992Tsutsumi HarueKanadehon Hamlet1994Yoshiyuki FukudaWatashi no downtown – Haha no shashin1995Jūichiro TakeuchiTsuki no hikari1997Ryo IwamatsuTV DaysNozomi MakinoTokyo genshikaku club19981998 Winners Matsuda MasatakaNatsu no suna no ue (Over Summer Sands)2000Ai NagaiHagi-ke no sanshimai2001Kankurō KudōGO2002Sakate YôjiYaneura (The Attic)2003Kara JûrôDoro ningyo (Mud Mermaid)2005Hishida ShinyaPowder – oshiroi2006Miwa NishikawaYureruNoda HidekiRope2007Kōki MitaniConfidant – Kizuna2008Kundō KoyamaOkuribito2009Shoji KokamiGlobe Jungle Kyokō no gekidan hataage 3 busaku2011Tomohiro MaekawaTaiyō2012Yang Yong-hiKazoku no kuni
Poetry and haiku YearWinnerWinning entry (Genre)1949Mokichi SaitōTomoshibi (Tanka) Shinpei KusanoKaeru no shi (Free Verse)1950 Kōtarō TakamuraTenkei (Free Verse) Yaichi AizuAizu Yaichi zenkashū (Tanka)1951 Satarō SatōKichō (Tanka)1952 Haruo SatōSatō Haruo zenshishū (Free Verse)1953Takashi MatsumotoIshidamashii (Haiku) Mitsuharu KanekoNingen no higeki (Free verse)1954Hakyō IshidaTeihon Ishida Hakyō zenkushū (Haiku)1955No award1956Junzaburō NishiwakiDai-san no shinwa (Free verse)1966Yuji KinoshitaTREELIKE1969Ryuta IidaForget (Haiku)1987Mutsuo TakahashiKeiko onjiki (Tanka & haiku)Hirohiko OkanoAme no Tazumura (Tanka)1993Akiko BabaAkobu1999Nagata KazuhiroAiba2003Kai HasegawaKyoku (Emptiness)20042004 WinnersKyōko KurikiNatsu no ushiro (In Back of Summer)2017Jeffrey AnglesWatashi no hizukehenkōsen (My International Date Line)
Essay and Travelogue YearWinnerWinning entry1967in Japanese WikipediaIkuma Dansei/zoku 'Paipu no Kemuri'(正/続「パイプのけむり」)1971Ibuse MasujiWaseda no Mori (The Woods around Waseda University)1988MizutaKazuo MizutaOn the Pacific Age—Promoting a Pacific University1999None awarded2003Mikirō SasakiAjia kaidô kikô (A Travel Journal of the Asian Seaboard)2004Wakashima TadashiRanshidokusha no Ei-Bei tanpen kôgi (An Astigmatic Reader's Lectures on British and American Short Fiction)2009Keijiro SugaShasen no tabi (Transversal Journeys)
Criticism and biography YearWinnerWinning entry1999Seiko TanabeDôtonbori no ame ni wakarete irai nari (Since Parting in the Rain at Dotombori)2003Takehiko NoguchiBakumatsu kibun (That Late-Bakufu Feeling)2004Mitsuyoshi NumanoYūtopia bungaku ron (On Utopian Literature)
Scholarship and translation YearWinnerWinning entry1990(Translated by) Noriko Ibaragi Kankoku gendai shi sen (「韓国現代詩選」)1999Yûhi TakashiEdo shiika-ron (Edo Period Poetry)(Translated by) Kudô YukioBurûno Shurutsu zenshû (The Collected Works of Bruno Shultz) 2003Takematsu YûichiIgirisu kindaishi hô (Modern British Poetry)2004Tanizawa EiichiBungôtachi no ôgenka (Great Fights Between the Literary Masters)2008Toyota Foundation (Translated by) Noriaki OshikawaRumah Kaca (Glass House)
See also List of Japanese literary awards
References
External links J'Lit | Awards : Yomiuri Prize for Literature | Books from Japan Japanese Literary Awards at waseda.jp Mishima on Japan-101.com Takahashi, Mutsuo on glbtq.com Shigehiko Hasumi's award