Yomiuri Prize

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The Yomiuri Prize for Literature (Japanese: Yomiuri Bungaku Shō) is a prestigious literary award. The prize was founded in 1948 by the Yomiuri Shinbun Company to help form a "cultural nation". The winner is awarded one million Japanese yen and an ink stone.

1 Award categories
2 Award winners
3 References
4 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] Award winners

[edit] Fiction

Year	Winner	Winning entry
2004<ref name='awards2004'>2004 Winners</ref>	Ogawa Yôko	Hakase no aishita sûshiki (The Professor's Formula for Success)
2003<ref name='awards2003'>2003 Winners</ref>	Mizumura Minae	Honkaku shôsetsu (A Real Novel)
2000	Naoyuki Ii	Nigotta gekiryu ni kakaru hashi (A Bridge over a Muddy Torrent)
1999<ref name='awards1999'>1999 Winners</ref>	Ogawa Kunio &	Hashissu gangu (The Hashish Gang)
1999<ref name='awards1999'>1999 Winners</ref>	Tsujihara Noboru	Tobe kirin (Fly, Kirin!)
	Ikezawa Natsuki	Tanoshi Shumatsu (Ending with Happiness)
1998<ref>Ogawa</ref>	Kunio Ogawa
1996	Haruki Murakami	The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
1985	Takako Takahashi	Ikari no ko (Child of wrath)
1984<ref>Yoshimura</ref>	Akira Yoshimura	Hagoku (Prison Break)
1978	Shigehiko Hasumi
1969	Kono Taeko	Fui no Koe (不意の声, A Sudden Voice)
1965<ref>Shono</ref>	Junzo Shono	Yube no Kumo (Evening Clouds)
1962	Kobo Abe	Woman in the Dunes (Sunna no Onna)
1957	Yukio Mishima	The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Kinkakuji)
1952	Ooka Shohei	Fires on the Plain (Nobi)

[edit] Drama

Year	Winner	Winning entry
2004<ref name='awards2004' />	Kara Jûrô	Doro ningyo (Mud Mermaid)
2003<ref name='awards2003' />	Sakate Yôji	Yaneura (The Attic)
1999<ref name='awards1999' />	Matsuda Masataka	Natsu no suna no ue (Over Summer Sands)
1995<ref>Chong</ref>	Ping Chong	Undesirable Elements
1993	Tsutsumi Harue	Kanadehon Hamlet
1961	Yukio Mishima	Toka no Kiku

[edit] Poetry & haiku

Year	Winner	Winning entry
2004<ref name='awards2004' />	Kuriki Kyôko	Natsu no ushiro (In Back of Summer)
2003<ref name='awards2003' />	Hasegawa Kai	Kyokû (Emptiness)
1999<ref name='awards1999' />	Nagata Kazuhiro	Aiba
	Mutsuo Takahashi
1966<ref>Kinoshita</ref>	Yuji Kinoshita	TREELIKE

[edit] Essay & Travelogue

Year	Winner	Winning entry
2004<ref name='awards2004' />	Wakashima Tadashi	Ranshidokusha no Ei-Bei tanpen kôgi (An Astigmatic Reader's Lectures on British and American Short Fiction)
2003<ref name='awards2003' />	Sasaki Mikirô	Ajia kaidô kikô (A Travel Journal of the Asian Seaboard)
1999<ref name='awards1999' />	None awarded
1988<ref>Mizuta</ref>	Kazuo Mizuta	On the Pacific Age -- Promoting a Pacific University

[edit] Criticism & biography

Year	Winner	Winning entry
2004<ref name='awards2004' />	umano Mitsuyoshi	Yûtopia bungaku ron (On Utopian Literature)
2003<ref name='awards2003' />	Noguchi Takehiko	Bakumatsu kibun (That Late-Bakufu Feeling)
1999<ref name='awards1999' />	Tanabe Seiko	Dôtonbori no ame ni wakarete irai nari (Since Parting in the Rain at Dotombori)

[edit] Scholarship and translation

Year	Winner	Winning entry
2004<ref name='awards2004' />	Tanizawa Eiichi	Bungôtachi no ôgenka (Great Fights Between the Literary Masters)
2003<ref name='awards2003' />	Takematsu Yûichi	Igirisu kindaishi hô (Modern British Poetry)
1999<ref name='awards1999' />	Yûhi Takashi	Edo shiika-ron (Edo Period Poetry)
1999<ref name='awards1999' />	(Translated by) Kudô Yukio	Burûno Shurutsu zenshû (The Collected Works of Bruno Shultz)