Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize
Encyclopedia
The are presented every year by the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan
. They honor the best in honkaku (i.e. authentic, orthodox) mystery fiction
and critical work published in the previous year.
Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan
is a Japan-based organization for mystery writers who write Honkaku mystery.The organization was founded on 3 November 2000 by Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Kaoru Kitamura, Tetsuya Ayukawa and the other mystery writers...
. They honor the best in honkaku (i.e. authentic, orthodox) mystery fiction
Mystery fiction
Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term.1.It is often used as a synonym for detective fiction or crime fiction— in other words a novel or short story in which a detective investigates and solves a crime mystery. Sometimes mystery books are nonfiction...
and critical work published in the previous year.
Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize for Best Novel winners
| Year | Winner | Winning entry | Available in English Language Translation | |
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| 1 | 2001 | Jun Kurachi (ja) | ||
| 2 | 2002 | Masaki Yamada Masaki Yamada Masaki Yamada is a Japanese science fiction author. He has won the Nihon SF Taisho Award, the Seiun Award three times, and an award for mystery fiction. His first story was in 1974. His novel Aphrodite was translated into English in 2004... |
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| 3 | 2003 | Kiyoshi Kasai (ja) | ||
| Otsuichi | Goth A Novel of Horror | |||
| 4 | 2004 | Shogo Utano (ja) | ||
| 5 | 2005 | Rintaro Norizuki (ja) | ||
| 6 | 2006 | Keigo Higashino Keigo Higashino is a Japanese author chiefly known for his mystery novels.-Biography:Born in Osaka, he started writing novels while still working as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co. . He won the Edogawa Rampo Award, which is awarded annually to the finest mystery work, in 1985 for the novel Hōkago at age 27... |
The Devotion of Suspect X Yōgisha X no Kenshin is a 2006 novel by Keigo Higashino, the third in his Tantei Galileo series and is his most acclaimed work thus far. The book won him numerous awards, including 134th Naoki Prize which is a highly regarded award in Japan and the 6th Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize.... |
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| 7 | 2007 | Shusuke Michio (ja) | ||
| 8 | 2008 | Arisu Arisugawa (ja) | ||
| 9 | 2009 | Masaki Tsuji Masaki Tsuji is a Japanese scenario writer of TV series and films as well as mystery fiction novels. Tsuji was most active in the business from the 1960s through the 1980s, and worked as a script writer on many popular anime TV series for Mushi Production, Toei Animation, and Tokyo Movie Shinsha.Among the... |
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| 10 | 2010 | Shinzo Mitsuda (ja) | ||
| Shogo Utano (ja) |
Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize for Best Critical Work winners
| Year | Winner | Winning entry | Available in English Language Translation | |
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| 1 | 2001 | Manji Gonda (ja) Hirohisa Shimpo (ja) |
(Dictionary of Japanese mystery writers) |
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| 2 | 2002 | Tadashi Wakashima (ja) | (Critical essay) |
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| 3 | 2003 | Kiyoshi Kasai (ja) | (Studies on Honkaku mystery) |
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| 4 | 2004 | Akiyuki Sengai (ja) | (Studies on Honkaku mystery) |
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| 5 | 2005 | Hajime Amagi (ja) | (Theory and practice of Locked room mystery Locked room mystery The locked room mystery is a sub-genre of detective fiction in which a crime—almost always murder—is committed under apparently impossible circumstances. The crime in question typically involves a crime scene that no intruder could have entered or left, e.g., a locked room... ) |
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| 6 | 2006 | Kaoru Kitamura Kaoru Kitamura is the pen name of , a popular contemporary Japanese writer, mainly of short stories.-Biography:Kitamura was born in the town of Sugito in Saitama Prefecture. He studied literature at Waseda University in Tokyo, and was a member of the Waseda Mystery Club while a student there... |
(Pastiche of Ellery Queen Ellery Queen Ellery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay and Manford Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee , to write, edit, and anthologize detective fiction.The fictional Ellery Queen created by... ) |
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| 7 | 2007 | Masaaki Tatsumi (ja) | (Studies on Honkaku mystery) |
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| 8 | 2008 | Kentaro Komori (ja) | (Studies on Honkaku mystery) |
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| 9 | 2009 | Toshiaki Endo | (Studies on Honkaku mystery) |
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| 10 | 2010 | Motoi Taniguchi | (Studies on Japanese heterodox literature) |
Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize for Lifetime Achievement winners
The award is presented irregularly.- 01 (2001) - Tetsuya AyukawaTetsuya Ayukawawas a Japanese critic and novelist. He is noted for his Detective Onikawa Series of mystery stories.Ayukawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, but spent his youth in Dalian, China, when it was Japan's leased territory...
(Honkaku mystery writer) - 04 (2004) - Yasunobu Togawa (ja) (editor), Hideomi Uyama (editor)
- 08 (2008) - FU BoFu bois a 2003 Hong Kong film directed by Wong Ching Po.-Cast:* Eric Tsang* Anthony Wong Chau Sang* Liu Kai-Chi* Johnson Lee* Pauline Suen-Crew:* Wong Ching Po - director* Yip Wai-Shan - producer* Sandy Yip - producer* Lee Kung Lok, Wong Ching Po - editor...
(Hiroshi Shimazaki) (ja) (editor)
Best Foreign Honkaku Mystery of the Decade (2000-2009)
The Best Honkaku Mystery Novel translated into Japanese in the last decade (2000-2009).- Jack KerleyJack KerleyJack Kerley is an American author. He spent 20 years in a successful advertising career before writing his first book. He currently lives in Newport, Kentucky, and is married with two children.-Writing:...
, The Death Collectors- Shortlisted titles
- Sarah CaldwellSarah CaldwellSarah Caldwell was a notable American opera conductor, impresario, and stage director of opera.- Life :Caldwell was born in Maryville, Missouri, and grew up in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She was a child prodigy and gave public performances on the violin by the time she was ten years old...
, The Sibyl in Her Grave - Jeffery DeaverJeffery DeaverJeffery Deaver is an American mystery/crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later practiced law before embarking on a successful career as a best-selling...
, The Cold MoonThe Cold MoonThe Cold Moon is a crime thriller novel written by Jeffery Deaver. It is the seventh book in the Lincoln Rhyme series, and also introduces CBI agent Kathryn Dance, who would get her own series of books.... - Michael ConnellyMichael ConnellyMichael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books, which have been translated into 36 languages, have garnered him many awards...
, Blood WorkBlood Work (novel)Blood Work is a novel written by Michael Connelly which marks the first appearance of Terry McCaleb. The book was used as the basis for the 2002 movie of the same name, starring Clint Eastwood... - Thomas H. CookThomas H. CookThomas H. Cook is an American author, whose 1996 novel The Chatham School Affair received an Edgar award from the Mystery Writers of America.Thomas H...
, Instruments of Night - Minette WaltersMinette WaltersMinette Walters is an English crime writer.- Life and work :After her birth in Bishop’s Stortford to a serving army officer, Capt Samuel Jebb and his wife Colleen, the first 10 years of Minette’s life were spent moving between army bases in the north and south of England...
, The Shape of SnakesThe Shape of SnakesThe Shape of Snakes is a crime novel by English writer Minette Walters. The story won Denmark's Pelle Rosencrantz Award.-Synopsis:In 1978, a black woman known as 'Mad Annie' by her neighbours was found dead in a west London gutter, her body discovered by Mrs...
- Sarah Caldwell
- Shortlisted titles
See also
- Mystery Writers of Japan AwardMystery Writers of Japan AwardThe are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of Japan. They honor the best in crime fiction and critical/biographical work published in the previous year.- MWJ Award for Best Novel winners :...
- Japanese detective fictionJapanese detective fiction, is a popular genre of Japanese literature. It's generally called in Japan.- Name :When the Western detective fictions spread into Japan, it created a new genre called detective fiction in Japanese literature....
- Honkaku Mystery Best 10Honkaku Mystery Best 10is an annual mystery fiction guide book published by Hara Shobo. The guide book publishes a list of the top ten honkaku mystery books published in Japan in the previous year.- 2001 :...