Yukio Mishima Prize
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The is a Japanese
literary award
presented annually. It was established in 1988 in memory of author Yukio Mishima
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Japanese literature
Early works of Japanese literature were heavily influenced by cultural contact with China and Chinese literature, often written in Classical Chinese. Indian literature also had an influence through the diffusion of Buddhism in Japan...
literary award
Literary award
A literary award is an award presented to an author who has written a particularly lauded piece or body of work. There are awards for forms of writing ranging from poetry to novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing . There are also awards...
presented annually. It was established in 1988 in memory of author Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima
was the pen name of , a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor and film director, also remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku after a failed coup d'état...
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Winners
- 1 1988 Genichiro Takahashi for 優雅で感傷的な日本野球 Yūga de Kanshōtekina Nippon Yakyū
- 4 1999 Kazumi SaekiKazumi Saekiis a Japanese novelist from Sendai in Miyagi prefecture. Kazumi is his pen name, adopted because of his fondness for Van Gogh's paintings of wheat fields....
for ア・ルース・ボーイ - 7 1994 Yoriko ShonoYoriko Shono, born 16 March 1956, is a Japanese writer who describes her writing as 'avant-pop'.- Biography :Yoriko Shono was born in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, grew up in Ise and studied in the Law Department at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto...
for 二百回忌 Nihyakkaiki - 13 2000 Tomoyuki HoshinoTomoyuki Hoshinois a Japanese writer. He was born in Los Angeles in 1965 and his family returned to Japan before he was three years old. He attended Waseda University and worked for a while as a journalist after graduating in 1988. He spent the better part of the years 1990-5 living in Mexico. He returned to...
for 目覚めよと人魚は歌う Mezameyo to Ningyo ha Utau - 14 2001 Shinji AoyamaShinji Aoyamais a Japanese film director, screenwriter, composer, and novelist. He graduated from Rikkyo University. He won two awards at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for his film Eureka.-Biography:...
for EUREKAEureka (2000 film)Eureka is a 2000 Japanese film directed and written by Shinji Aoyama. It stars Kōji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, and Masaru Miyazaki.-Synopsis:...
(Novel Version) - 16 2003 Otaro MaijoOtaro Maijois a Japanese novelist from Fukui Prefecture. Winner of the 19th Mephisto Award for Smoke, Soil, and Sacrifices, and the 16th Yukio Mishima award for Ashura Girl...
for AsuraAsura-In Hinduism:In Hinduism, the Asuras constitute a group of power-seeking deities, sometimes considered sinful and materialistic. The Daityas and Danavas were combinedly known as Asuras. The Asura were opposed to the Devas. Both groups are children of Kasyapa...
Girl - (阿修羅ガール Ashura Gāru) - 20 2007 Yuya SatoYuya Sato (novelist)is a Japanese novelist from Hokkaido Prefecture. He won the 21st Mephisto Award for Flicker Style, and the 20th Yukio Mishima Prize for 1000 Novels and Backbeard. A few of his works have been published in the English edition of Faust. His works have been translated into Chinese and Korean.Kenzaburō...
for 1000 Novels and Backbeard - (1000の小説とバックベアード Sen no Shōsetsu to Bakkubeādo) - 23 2010 Hiroki AzumaHiroki Azuma, born May 9, 1971 in Mitaka, Tokyo is a Japanese cultural critic.-Biography:He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1999 and became a professor at the International University of Japan in 2003...
for クォンタム・ファミリーズ
Members of the selection committee
Current members- Yoko OgawaYoko Ogawais a Japanese writer.-Biography:Ogawa was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and lives in Ashiya, Hyōgo, with her husband and son. Since 1988, she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel The Professor's Beloved Equation has been...
, Hiromi Kawakami, Noboru TsujiharaNoboru Tsujiharais a prize-winning Japanese Novelist.- Prizes :* 1990 Akutagawa Prize for Mura no namae * 1999 Yomiuri Prize for Tobe kirin * 2000 Tanizaki Prize for Yudotei Enboku...
, Keiichiro HiranoKeiichiro Hiranois a Japanese novelist.Hirano was born in Gamagori, Aichi prefecture, Japan. He published his first novel in 1998 and won the Akutagawa Prize the next year as one of the youngest winners ever . He graduated from the Law Department of Kyoto University in 1999...
, Ko Machida
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- Kenzaburo OeKenzaburo Oeis a Japanese author and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His works, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issues including nuclear weapons, social non-conformism and existentialism.Ōe was awarded...
, Jun EtoJun Etowas a Japanese literary critic, active in the Shōwa and early Heisei period Japan.- Early life :Etō was born in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo; his father was a banker, and his grandfather was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy. His mother died when he was four years old, and always sickly...
, Kenji NakagamiKenji NakagamiKenji Nakagami was a noted Japanese writer, critic, and poet of buraku ancestry. Nakagami died from kidney cancer in 1992 at the age of 46.- Life :...
, Yasutaka TsutsuiYasutaka Tsutsuiis a Japanese novelist, science fiction author, and actor. Along with Shinichi Hoshi and Sakyo Komatsu, he is one of the most famous science fiction writers in Japan. His Yumenokizaka bunkiten won the Tanizaki Prize in 1987. He has also won the 1981 Izumi Kyoka award, the 1989 Kawabata Yasunari...
, Teru MiyamotoTeru Miyamotois a Japanese author.-Biography:Miyamoto was born in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan and graduated from the faculty of letters at Otemon Gakuin University after which he became a copywriter. In 1970, he began to write his first novel and quit his job...
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- Shintaro IshiharaShintaro Ishiharais a Japanese author, actor, politician and the governor of Tokyo since 1999.- Early life and artistic career :Shintarō was born in Suma-ku, Kobe. His father Kiyoshi was an employee, later a general manager, of a shipping company. Shintarō grew up in Zushi...
, Jun Eto, Genichiro Takahashi, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Teru Miyamoto
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- So AonoSo Aonois a Japanese novelist, third son of the renowned literary critic Suekichi Aono, and winner of the 1979 Akutagawa Prize and the 1991 Yomiuri Prize....
, Shitaro Ishihara, Jun Eto, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Teru Miyamoto
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- Masahiko ShimadaMasahiko Shimadais a Japanese writer. He began his career as a novelist by describing himself as sayoku . In his works, he often refers to the Emperor and to the Japanese Royal Family. Recently, he began to write poems.-Biography:...
, Nobuko Takagi, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Kazuya Fukuda, Teru Miyamoto
See also
- List of Japanese literary awards