The , named after Edogawa Rampo, is a Japanese literary award which has been presented every year by the Mystery Writers of Japan since 1955.Fukue, Nastuko, "Literary awards run spectrum ", Japan Times, 14 February 2012, p. 3.
Though its name is similar to the Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which has been presented by Mystery Writers of America, the Edogawa Rampo Prize is not a counterpart of the Edgar Awards. The Japanese counterparts of the Edgar awards are the Mystery Writers of Japan Awards, which honor the best in crime fiction and critical/biographical work published in the previous year.
The Edogawa Rampo Prize is an award for unpublished mystery novels. It is sponsored by Kodansha and Fuji Television. Not only is the novel of the winner, which is selected from more than 300 entries, published by Kodansha, but the winner also receives a prize of 10,000,000 yen.
The members of the 2014 selection committee were Natsuo Kirino, Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Ira Ishida, Alice Arisugawa (ja) and Bin Konno (ja), who is the current president of the Mystery Writers of Japan.
On the Prize's 70th year in 2024, the awardees are: Yukakujima Shinju Gatari by Ryu Shimotsuki and Fake Muscle by Eitaro Hino. They were recognized as best among a total of 395 submissions, and they will each receive a statue of Edogawa Rampo plus 2,500,000 yen as prizes. Further, Kodansha will publish the winning works in August 2024.
Winners The first and second Edogawa Rampo Prize is not the crime novel award, but an award given to persons who have made an outstanding contribution to the genre.
YearWinnerWinning entryAvailable in English Translation 1 1955Kawataro NakajimaBiographical and bibliographical dictionary of detective fiction 2 1956Hayakawa Publishing Corporation (ja)Publication of Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Books (ja) 3 1957Etsuko Niki 4 1958Kyo Takigawa (ja) 5 1959Fumiko Shinsho (ja) 6 1960No Award Presented 7 1961CHIN Shunshin81962Sen Saga (ja) Masako TogawaThe Master Key 9 1963Shota Fujimura (ja) 10 1964Noboru Saito (ja) 11 1965Kyotaro Nishimura 12 1966Sakae Saito 13 1967Eisuke Kaito (ja) 14 1968No Award Presented 15 1969Seiichi Morimura 16 1970Yotaro Otani (ja) 17 1971No Award Presented 18 1972Shunzo Waku (ja) 19 1973Hajime Komine (ja) 20 1974Kyuzo Kobayashi (ja) 21 1975Keisuke Kusaka (ja) 22 1976Ro Tomono (ja)231977Sen Fujimoto Tatsuo Kaji (ja) 24 1978Kaoru Kurimoto 25 1979Yoshio Takayanagi (ja) 26 1980Motohiko Izawa 27 1981Akira Nagai (ja)281982Fumihiko Nakatsu (ja) Futari Okajima (ja) 29 1983Katsuhiko TakahashiThe Case of the Sharaku Murders 30 1984Kanako Torii (ja)311985Keigo Higashino Masahiro Mori (ja) 32 1986Yoko Yamazaki (ja) 33 1987Toshihiro Ishii (ja) 34 1988Koichi Sakamoto (ja) 35 1989Shukei Nagasaka (ja)361990Yoichi Abe (ja) Ryo Toba (ja)371991Sho Narumi (ja) Yuichi Shimpo (ja) 38 1992Yaichiro Kawada (ja) 39 1993Natsuo Kirino 40 1994Hiroyuki Nakajima (ja) 41 1995Iori Fujiwara (ja) 42 1996Yoko Watanabe (ja) 43 1997Hisashi Nozawa441998Harutoshi Fukui (ja) Jun Ikeido (ja) 45 1999Takeshi Shinno (ja) 46 2000Urio Shudo (ja) 47 2001Kazuaki Takano 48 2002Akihiro Miura (ja)492003Mihiro Akai (ja) Kyosuke Shiranui (ja) 50 2004Yusuke Kamiyama (ja) 51 2005Gaku Yakumaru (ja)522006Ran Hayase (ja) Ren Kaburagi (ja) 53 2007Keisuke Sone (ja)542008Kan Shoda (ja) Hiromi Sueura (ja) 55 2009Takefumi Endo (ja) 56 2010Dai Yokozeki (ja)572011Nanao Kawase (ja) Mayumi Kumura (ja) 58 2012Fumio Takano 59 2013Yusuke Takeyoshi (ja) 60 2014Atsushi Shimomura (ja) 61 2015Katsuhiro Go (ja) 62 2016Kiwamu Sato (ja)QJKJQ 63 2017No winnerNo winner 64 2018Eiichi Saitou (ja) 65 2019 66 2020 67 2021 68 2022Akane Araki (ja)
Finalists available in English Not a few finalists were published in Japan. 18 (1972) - Misa Yamamura (ja), 26 (1980) - Soji Shimada,
See also Japanese detective fiction Mystery Writers of Japan Edogawa Rampo Japanese mystery awards for unpublished novels Ayukawa Tetsuya Award Mephisto Prize Agatha Christie Award Japanese mystery awards for best works published in the previous year Mystery Writers of Japan Award Honkaku Mystery Award
References
Suekuni, Yoshimi (2000), "Edogawa Ranpo Shō". Nihon Misuteri Jiten(日本ミステリー事典), Shinchosha, Tokyo
External links Mystery Writers of Japan official English website List of Edogawa Rampo Prize winners Fumio Takano Official Website