• The Yomiuri Prize for Literature (読売文学賞, Yomiuri Bungaku Shō) is a literary award in Japan. The prize was founded in 1949 by the Yomiuri Shimbun Company...
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    editions. The Yomiuri Shimbun established the Yomiuri Prize in 1949. Its winners have included Yukio Mishima and Haruki Murakami. The Yomiuri was launched...
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  • feature in the Yomiuri Shimbun. In the same year, it was revised and republished as a book by Gentosha Bunko. The novel won the Yomiuri Prize for Fiction...
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    Yukio Mishima (category Yomiuri Prize winners)
    Su) Yomiuri Prize from Yomiuri Newspaper Co., for best novel, 1956, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion Shuukan Yomiuri Prize for Shingeki from Yomiuri Newspaper...
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  • by the Japanese writer Kōbō Abe, published in 1962. It won the 1962 Yomiuri Prize for literature, and an English translation by E. Dale Saunders, and...
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    Ryōtarō Shiba (category Yomiuri Prize winners)
    China's history with Tokugawa Japan. Naoki Prize (1960) Kikuchi Kan Prize (1966) Yomiuri Prize (1981) Asahi Prize (1982) Person of Cultural Merit (1991) Order...
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  • Yōko Ogawa (category Yomiuri Prize winners)
    every major Japanese literary award, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Prize. Internationally, she has been the recipient of the Shirley Jackson...
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    Hiromi Kawakami (category Yomiuri Prize winners)
    literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Yomiuri Prize, and the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature. Her work has been adapted...
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  • Yūko Tsushima (category Yomiuri Prize winners)
    literary prizes in her career, including the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Noma Literary Prize, the Yomiuri Prize and...
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  • Fires on the Plain (Japanese: 野火 Nobi) is a Yomiuri Prize-winning novel by Ooka Shohei, published in 1951. It describes the experiences of a soldier of...
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    Haruki Murakami (category Yomiuri Prize winners)
    Literary Prize (best newcomer) for A Wild Sheep Chase 1985: Tanizaki Prize for Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World 1995: Yomiuri Prize (best...
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    Ken'ichi Yoshida (literary scholar) (category Yomiuri Prize winners)
    Yukio, and Nakamura Mitsuo. He was awarded the Yomiuri Prize in 1957 and 1971 and the Noma Literary Prize in 1970. Yoshida died in his home in Tokyo in...
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    Kenzaburō Ōe (category Yomiuri Prize winners)
    Prize, 1957. Akutagawa Prize, 1958. Shinchosha Literary Prize, 1964. Tanizaki Prize, 1967. Noma Prize, 1973. Yomiuri Prize, 1982. Jiro Osaragi Prize (Asahi...
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    Aya Kōda (category Yomiuri Prize winners)
    issho no tomo) 1956: Yomiuri Prize for The Black Kimono 1956: Shinchō Literary Prize for Nagareru 1957: Japan Art Academy Prize for Nagareru 1973: Joryū...
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  • Akira Yoshimura (category Yomiuri Prize winners)
    have been translated into several languages. In 1984 he received the Yomiuri Prize for his novel Hagoku (破獄, On Parole) based on the true story of Yoshie...
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    Aizu Yaichi (category Yomiuri Prize winners)
    received the 2nd Yomiuri Prize. Japan portal Poetry portal http://www.waseda.jp/aizu/ "読売文学賞" [Yomiuri Prize for Literature] (in Japanese). Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved...
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  • Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Production 2020 Yomiuri Prize for Best Play 2020 Yomiuri Prize for Best Actress "The Father, au théâtre de londres...
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    Ryū Murakami (category Yomiuri Prize winners)
    Yomiuri Prize for Fiction that year. Parasites (Kyōsei chū, 2000) is about a young hikikomori fascinated by war. It won him the 36th Tanizaki Prize....
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    Masuji Ibuse (category Yomiuri Prize winners)
    wasn't until after the war that he became famous. He won the inaugural Yomiuri Prize in 1949 for Honjitsu kyūshin (本日休診, No Consultations Today). In 1966...
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    Kiku Amino (category Yomiuri Prize winners)
    She was a recipient of the Women's Literature Prize, the Yomiuri Prize, and Japan Academy of the Arts prize. Amino was born in Azabu Mamiana-cho and raised...
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    poet's uncollected poems, his journals, and many letters. The Nakahara Chūya Prize was established in 1996 by Yamaguchi city (with the support of publishers...
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  • Amy Yamada (category Yomiuri Prize winners)
    Rojikku, アニマル・ロジック) 2000 Yomiuri Prize---A2Z 2005 Tanizaki Prize---Wonderful Flavor (Fūmizekka, 風味絶佳) 2012 Noma Bungei Prize---Gentleman (Jentoruman,...
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    Haruo Satō (novelist) (category Yomiuri Prize winners)
    works are known for their explorations of melancholy. He won the 4th Yomiuri Prize. The House of a Spanish Dog, 西班牙犬の家, 1914. Melancholy in the Country...
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  • Kōbō Abe (category Yomiuri Prize winners)
    were the Akutagawa Prize in 1951 for The Crime of S. Karuma, the Yomiuri Prize in 1962 for The Woman in the Dunes, and the Tanizaki Prize in 1967 for the...
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    Shinpei Kusano (category Yomiuri Prize winners)
    Library, built as a prize for honorary Kawauchi Village residents, was completed. In January 1970, he received the 21st Yomiuri Literary Award for "Wagamama...
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    Yoko Tawada (category Yomiuri Prize winners)
    renshūsei, was published in Japan. It won the 2011 Noma Literary Prize and the 2012 Yomiuri Prize. In 2014 the German version, titled Etüden im Schnee, was published...
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    The Yomiuri Giants (読売ジャイアンツ, Yomiuri Jaiantsu, formally Yomiuri Kyojingun (読売巨人軍)) are a Japanese professional baseball team competing in Nippon Professional...
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  • Kaoru Takamura (category Yomiuri Prize winners)
    the Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize, the Naoki Prize, the Yomiuri Prize, and the Noma Literary Prize, and her work has been adapted for film...
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    Shōhei Ōoka (category Yomiuri Prize winners)
    second Yomiuri Prize in 1989 for a biography of Natsume Sōseki. In October 1994, the Japanese writer Kenzaburō Ōe, when awarded the Nobel Prize of literature...
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  • Natsuo Kirino (category Yomiuri Prize winners)
    Zangyakuki 2008 – Tanizaki Prize: Tokyo Island (Novel) 2009 – Murasaki Shikibu Prize: The Goddess Chronicle 2011 – Yomiuri Prize: Nanika Aru 2015 – Japan's...
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