The is a Japanese literary award presented annually. It was established in 1988 in memory of author Yukio Mishima. The Mishima Yukio Prize is explicitly intended for work that "breaks new ground for the future of literature," and prize winners tend to be more controversial and experimental than winners of the more traditional Akutagawa Prize. It is awarded in the same annual ceremony as the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize, which was established by the same sponsor in 1988 to recognize popular writing and genre fiction.
Winners Shinchosha, the award's sponsor, maintains an official archive of award nominee and recipient information.
YearWinnerWinning entry11988Genichiro Takahashi21989Akira Ooka31990Jugi Hisama41991Kazumi Saeki51992no applicable work61993Chokitsu KurumataniKazuya Fukuda71994Yoriko Shono81995Masayo Yamamoto91996Hisaki Matsuura101997Satoru Higuchi111998Kyoji Kobayashi121999Suzuki SeigōToshiyuki Horie132000Tomoyuki Hoshino142001Shinji AoyamaEUREKA (Novel)Masaya Nakahara152002Masatsugu Ono162003Otaro Maijo172004Toshihiko Yahagi182005Maki Kashimada192006Hideo FurukawaLOVE202007Yuya Sato212008Shinya Tanaka222009Shiro Maeda232010Hiroki Azuma242011Natsuko Imamura252012Jungo Aoki262013Sayaka Murata272014Yukiko Motoya282015Takahiro Ueda292016Shigehiko Hasumi302017Yusuke Miyauchi312018Natsuki Koyata322019Michiko Mikuni332020Rin Usami342021352022Toshiki Okada362023372024
Members of the selection committee From 1st to 4th: Kenzaburō Ōe, Jun Eto, Kenji Nakagami, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Teru Miyamoto From 5th to 8th: Shintaro Ishihara, Jun Eto, Genichiro Takahashi, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Teru Miyamoto From 9th to 12th: So Aono, Shitaro Ishihara, Jun Eto, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Teru Miyamoto From 13th to 20th: Masahiko Shimada, Nobuko Takagi, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Kazuya Fukuda, Teru Miyamoto From 21st to 24th: Yōko Ogawa, Hiromi Kawakami, Noboru Tsujihara, Keiichiro Hirano, Ko Machida Current members: Hiromi Kawakami, Kaoru Takamura, Noboru Tsujihara, Keiichiro Hirano, Ko Machida
Available in English translation Nominees 1988 (1st) - Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen 1994 (7th) - Rieko Matsuura, The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P (trans. Michael Emmerich, Kodansha USA, 2010) 2003 (16th) - Novala Takemoto, Emily (trans. Misa Dikengil Lindberg, Shueisha English Edition, 2013)Emily - A Novel by Novala Takemoto (Shueisha English Edition)
Winners 2003 (16th) - Otaro Maijo, Asura Girl (trans. Stephen Snyder, Haikasoru, 2014, ) Notes
See also List of Japanese literary awards
External links Official Website