The Yomiuri Prize for Literature (読売文学賞) is a literary award in Japan. The prize was founded in 1949 by the Yomiuri Shimbun Company to help form a "strong cultural nation". The winner is awarded two million Japanese yen and an inkstone.
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.
Award winners
The Yomiuri Shimbun maintains an official list of current and past prize recipients.[1]
Fiction
Drama
Poetry and haiku
Essay and Travelogue
Criticism and biography
Scholarship and translation
See also
- List of Japanese literary awards
External links
References
- 読売文学賞 Yomiuri Shimbun, retrieved September 2, 2018^
- 読売文学賞受賞作・候補作一覧1-72回｜文学賞の世界^
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- Yoshimura^
- 2003 Winners^
- iBiblio.org^
- 1998 Winners^
- 2004 Winners^
- Professor wins prestigious Japanese literary prize for poetry 20 February 2017^
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- info.yomiuri.co.jp/contest retrieved 19 September 2019^
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