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Akutagawa Prize

Index Akutagawa Prize

The is a Japanese literary award presented semi-annually. [1]

102 relations: Akiko Itoyama, Amy Yamada, Anna Ogino, Ashihei Hino, Bungeishunjū, Bungeishunjū (magazine), Chiya Fujino, Eiki Matayoshi, Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica Online, Fumiko Kometani, Fuminori Nakamura, Genpei Akasegawa, Gishū Nakayama, Hideo Takubo, Hikaru Okuizumi, Hiromi Kawakami, Hisaki Matsuura, Hitomi Kanehara, Hitonari Tsuji, Japanese literature, Jūrō Kara, Jun Ishikawa, Junnosuke Yoshiyuki, Junzo Shono, Kan Kikuchi, Kazuo Okamatsu, Kazushi Hosaka, Kazushige Abe, Kō Machida, Kōbō Abe, Kōichirō Uno, Keiichiro Hirano, Keizo Hino, Kenji Maruyama, Kenji Nakagami, Kenta Nishimura, Kenzaburō Ōe, Kiyohiro Miura, Kosuke Gomi, Kyoko Hayashi, Lee Yangji, Literary award, Literature, Mariko Asabuki, Masahiko Shimada, Masuo Ikeda, Michiko Yamamoto, Mieko Kawakami, Minako Oba, ..., Mineo Higashi, Miri Yu, Morio Kita, Motoyoshi Shimizu, Nanae Aoyama, Naoki Matayoshi, Naoki Prize, Natsuki Ikezawa, Nobel Prize in Literature, Noboru Tsujihara, Nobuko Takagi, Nobuo Kojima, Rie Yoshiyuki, Risa Wataya, Ryū Murakami, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Saiichi Maruya, Sayaka Murata, Seichō Matsumoto, Seiko Tanabe, Shōtarō Yasuoka, Shūsaku Endō, Shigeko Yuki, Shintaro Ishihara, Shu Fujisawa, Shuichi Yoshida, Shun Medoruma, Snakes and Earrings, So Aono, Society for the Promotion of Japanese Literature, Taeko Kono, Takami Itō, Takeshi Kaikō, Taku Miki, Tatsuhiro Oshiro, Tatsuzō Ishikawa, Teru Miyamoto, Tetsushi Suwa, The Japan Times, Toh EnJoe, Tomoka Shibasaki, Tomoko Yoshida, Toshiyuki Horie, Tsuneko Nakazato, Yang Yi (author), Yasushi Inoue, Yōko Ogawa, Yoko Tawada, Yoriko Shono, Yoshikichi Furui, Yoshinori Yagi, Yuichi Takai. Expand index (52 more) »

Akiko Itoyama

is a Japanese novelist, who won the 134th Akutagawa Prize.

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Amy Yamada

born February 8, 1959, is a popular but controversial contemporary Japanese writer who is most famous for her stories that address issues of sexuality, racism, and interracial marriage, topics not typically discussed openly in Japanese society.

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Anna Ogino

is a Japanese author and professor of literature at Keio University.

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Ashihei Hino

was born in Wakamatsu (now Wakamatsu ward, Kitakyūshū) and in 1937 he received the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for one of his novels,.

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Bungeishunjū

, established in 1923, is a Japanese publishing company known for its leading monthly magazine Bungeishunjū.

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Bungeishunjū (magazine)

is a leading Japanese monthly magazine based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Chiya Fujino

is a Japanese writer of literary fiction.

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Eiki Matayoshi

is a contemporary Japanese writer.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Encyclopædia Britannica Online

Encyclopædia Britannica Online is the website of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. and its Encyclopædia Britannica, with more than 120,000 articles that are updated regularly.

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Fumiko Kometani

Fumiko Kometani (米谷ふみ子 Kometani Fumiko), born in Osaka, Japan in 1930, is a Japanese author and artist (painter) and a longtime resident of the United States.

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Fuminori Nakamura

is the pseudonym of a Japanese author.

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Genpei Akasegawa

was a pseudonym of Japanese artist (March 27, 1937 – October 26, 2014).

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Gishū Nakayama

was the pen-name of a Japanese writer active in Shōwa period Japan.

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Hideo Takubo

was a noted Japanese author.

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Hikaru Okuizumi

, born 6 February 1956, is a Japanese novelist.

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Hiromi Kawakami

is an award-winning Japanese writer known for her off-beat fiction, poetry, and literary criticism.

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Hisaki Matsuura

is a noted Japanese professor, poet, and novelist.

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Hitomi Kanehara

is an award-winning Japanese novelist.

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Hitonari Tsuji

is a Tokyo-born Japanese writer, composer, and film director.

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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.

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Jūrō Kara

is a Japanese playwright, theatre director, author, actor, and songwriter.

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Jun Ishikawa

was the pen name of a modernist author, translator and literary critic active in Shōwa period Japan.

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Junnosuke Yoshiyuki

was a Japanese novelist and short-story writer.

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Junzo Shono

was a Japanese novelist.

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Kan Kikuchi

, known by his pen name Kan Kikuchi (which uses the same kanji as his real name), was a Japanese author born in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Kazuo Okamatsu

was a Japanese philologist and novelist.

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Kazushi Hosaka

is a Japanese writer.

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Kazushige Abe

is a contemporary Japanese writer.

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Kō Machida

is a Japanese author, punk rock singer, poet and actor.

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Kōbō Abe

, pseudonym of, was a Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor.

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Kōichirō Uno

is a Japanese author of erotic novels.

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Keiichiro Hirano

is a Japanese novelist.

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Keizo Hino

was a Japanese author.

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Kenji Maruyama

is a Japanese author.

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Kenji Nakagami

was a Japanese novelist and essayist.

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Kenta Nishimura

Kenta Nishimura (西村賢太 Nishimura Kenta, July 12 1967) is a Japanese novelist.

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Kenzaburō Ōe

is a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature.

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Kiyohiro Miura

is a Japanese writer.

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Kosuke Gomi

was the pen-name of Gomi Yasusuke, a Japanese novelist active during the Shōwa period of Japan.

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Kyoko Hayashi

was a Japanese author.

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Lee Yangji

Yangji Lee (March 15, 1955–May 22, 1992) was a second-generation Zainichi Korean Japanese novelist born in Nishikatsura, Yamanashi, Japan.

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Literary award

A literary award is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work.

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Literature

Literature, most generically, is any body of written works.

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Mariko Asabuki

is a Japanese writer.

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Masahiko Shimada

is a Japanese writer.

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Masuo Ikeda

was a Japanese painter, printmaker, illustrator, sculptor, ceramist, novelist, and film director from Nagano Prefecture.

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Michiko Yamamoto

is the pen-name of a Japanese writer of short stories and poetry in Shōwa and Heisei period Japan.

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Mieko Kawakami

is a Japanese singer and writer from Osaka.

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Minako Oba

was a Japanese author and social critic.

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Mineo Higashi

Mineo Higashi (born 1938) is an Okinawan writer.

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Miri Yu

Miri Yu (born June 22, 1968) is a Zainichi Korean playwright, novelist, and essayist.

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Morio Kita

was the pen name of, a Japanese novelist, essayist, and psychiatrist.

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Motoyoshi Shimizu

was the pen name of a Japanese novelist and poet, active during the Shōwa and Heisei periods of Japan.

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Nanae Aoyama

is a Japanese fiction writer.

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Naoki Matayoshi

is a Japanese comedian, screenwriter, and novelist who won the Akutagawa Prize in 2015 for his book,.

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Naoki Prize

The Naoki Prize is a Japanese literary award presented semiannually.

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Natsuki Ikezawa

is a Japanese poet, novelist, essayist and translator.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that has been awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning").

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Noboru Tsujihara

is a prize-winning Japanese novelist.

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Nobuko Takagi

Nobuko Takagi (高樹 のぶ子 Takagi Nobuko, born April 9, 1946) is the pen-name of Nobuko Tsuruta, a Japanese author.

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Nobuo Kojima

was a Japanese writer prominent in the postwar era.

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Rie Yoshiyuki

was a Japanese poet and novelist.

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Risa Wataya

is a female Japanese novelist from Kyoto.

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Ryū Murakami

is a Japanese novelist, short story writer, essayist and filmmaker.

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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

, art name Chōkōdō Shujin(澄江堂主人) was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan.

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Saiichi Maruya

was a Japanese author and literary critic.

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Sayaka Murata

Sayaka Murata (村田沙耶香 Murata Sayaka) is a Japanese writer.

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Seichō Matsumoto

was a Japanese writer.

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Seiko Tanabe

is a Japanese author born in Osaka.

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Shōtarō Yasuoka

was a Japanese writer.

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Shūsaku Endō

was a Japanese author who wrote from the rare perspective of a Japanese Roman Catholic.

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Shigeko Yuki

Shigeko Yuki (由起 しげ子, Sakai, Osaka, December 2, 1900 – December 30, 1969) was a Japanese writer.

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Shintaro Ishihara

is a Japanese politician and author who was Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012.

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Shu Fujisawa

is a Japanese writer active during the late Shōwa and early Heisei period periods of Japan.

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Shuichi Yoshida

(born 14 September 1968), is a Japanese novelist.

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Shun Medoruma

is a Japanese writer along with Ōshiro Tatsuhiro, Sakiyama Tami, and Matayoshi Eiki, one of the most important contemporary writers from Okinawa, Japan. Early in his career he won the 11th Ryukyu Shimpō Short Story Prize in 1983 for "Taiwan Woman: Record of a Fish Shoal" ("Gyogunki"), translated by Shi-Lin Loh in Islands of Protest: Japanese Literature from Okinawa, and the New Okinawan Literature Prize in 1986 for "Walking the Street Named Peace Boulevard" ("Heiwa doori to nazukerareta machi o aruite"). He was awarded the 27th Kyushu Arts Festival Literary Prize and the 117th Akutagawa Prize in 1997 for his short story "A Drop of Water" ("Suiteki"). – The Okinawa Times 2000/7/21 (Retrieved on January 13, 2008) (Also translated as "Droplets" by Michael Molasky, appearing in the collection of translated stories and poems from Japanese into English titled Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese literature from Okinawa.) In 2000 his short story "Mabuigumi" ("Spirit Stuffing," 1998) won the prestigious Kawabata Yasunari and Kiyama Shōhei literary prizes. Medoruma also wrote the screenplay for the film Fūon:The Crying Wind, which received the Montreal Film Festival Innovation Prize in 2004, and published a novel based on the screenplay the same year. His critically acclaimed novel In the Woods of Memory (Me no oku no mori, 2009, Tr. Takuma Sminkey, 2017) is the first full-length novel by an Okinawan writer to be translated and published in English.

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Snakes and Earrings

is a novel written by the Japanese author Hitomi Kanehara in 2003, and it won the 2003 Akutagawa Prize for literature.

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So Aono

is an award-winning Japanese novelist.

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Society for the Promotion of Japanese Literature

The is an organisation, established in 1938, to promote Japanese literature.

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Taeko Kono

is one of the most important Japanese women writers of the second half of the twentieth century, someone whose influence on contemporary Japanese women writers is acknowledged to be immeasurable.

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Takami Itō

is a Japanese author who won an Akutagawa Prize in 2006.

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Takeshi Kaikō

was a prominent post-World War II Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, literary critic, and television documentary writer.

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Taku Miki

is the pen-name of a Japanese poet and novelist in Showa and Heisei period Japan.

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Tatsuhiro Oshiro

is a Japanese novelist and playwright.

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Tatsuzō Ishikawa

was a Japanese author.

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Teru Miyamoto

is a Japanese author.

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Tetsushi Suwa

is a Japanese writer from Nagoya, Aichi.

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The Japan Times

The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.

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Toh EnJoe

(born September 15, 1972) is a Japanese author.

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Tomoka Shibasaki

is an award-winning Japanese writer from Osaka.

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Tomoko Yoshida

Tomoko Yoshida (吉田 知子, real name Tomoko Kira 吉良 知子; Hamamatsu, February 6, 1934) is a Japanese writer.

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Toshiyuki Horie

is a Japanese author and translator.

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Tsuneko Nakazato

was the pen-name of a novelist in Shōwa period Japan.

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Yang Yi (author)

Yang Yi (born June 18, 1964) is the pen name of Liu Qiao, a Chinese-born novelist who has lived in Japan since 1987.

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Yasushi Inoue

was a Japanese writer of poetry, essays, short fiction, and novels.

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Yōko Ogawa

is a Japanese writer.

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Yoko Tawada

Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子 Tawada Yōko, born March 23, 1960) is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany.

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Yoriko Shono

, born 16 March 1956, is a Japanese writer who describes her writing as 'avant-pop'.

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Yoshikichi Furui

is a noted Japanese author and translator.

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Yoshinori Yagi

was a noted Japanese author.

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Yuichi Takai

was a Japanese author.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akutagawa_Prize

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