Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize

The Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize ( Jap. 川端康成文学賞 , Yasunari Kawabata Bungaku Shō ) is since 1974 annually in memory of the writer and Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata from the Kawabata Memorial Foundation ( 川端康成記念会 , Kawabata Yasunari-Kinenkai ) for outstanding narratives and short stories. The award is financed by a foundation that administers the prize money that Kawabata received with the award of the Nobel Prize (1968).

Award winners

1974 to 1980

1974 Kambayashi Akatsuki for Buronzu no michi ( ブロンズの首 )
1975 Nagai Tatsuo for Aki ( 秋 )
1976 Sata Ineko for Toki ni tatsu jūichi ( 時に佇つ（十一） )
1977 Mizukami Tsutomu for Terudomari ( 寺泊 ) and Tomioka Taeko for Tachikiri ( 立切れ )
1978 Wada Yoshie for Yukionna ( 雪女 )
1979 Kaikō Takeshi for Tama, kudakeru ( 玉、砕ける )
1980 Noguchi Fujio for Naginoha-kō ( なぎの葉考 )

1981 to 1990

1981 Takenishi Hiroko for Heitai yado ( 兵隊宿 )
1982 Irokawa Takehiro for Hyaku ( 百 )
1983 Shimao Toshio for Wannai no irie de ( 湾内の入江で ) and Tsushima Yūko for Dammari ichi ( 黙市 )
1984 Ōe Kenzaburō for Kaba ni kamareru ( 河馬に嚙まれる ) and Hayashi Kyōko for Sangai no ie ( 三界の家 )
1985 Takahashi Takako for Kou ( 恋う ) and Takubo Hideo for Tsujika (?) ( 辻火 )
1986 Ogawa Kunio for Itsumin ( 逸民 )
1987 Furui Yoshikichi for Nakayama Saka ( 中山坂 ) and Sakata Hirō for Kaidōtōsei ( 海道東征 )
1988 Ueda Miyoshi for Shukukon ( 祝婚 ) and Maruya Saiichi for Jueitan ( 樹影譚 )
1989 Ōba Minako for Umi ni yuragu ito ( 海にゆらぐ糸 ) and Tsutsui Yasutaka for Yoppatani e no kōka ( ヨッパ谷への降下 )
1990 Miura Tetsuo for Jinenjo ( じねんじょ )

1991 to 2000

1991 Yasuoka Shōtarō for Oji no bochi ( 伯父の墓地 )
1992 Yoshida Tomoko for Osonae ( お供え )
1993 Tsukasa Osamu for Inu (kage ni tsuite, sono ichi) ( 犬（影について・その一） )
1994 Furuyama Komao for Semi no tsuioku ( セミの追憶 )
1995 Miura Tetsuo for Minomushi ( みのむし )
1996 Ōba Minako for Akai mangetsu ( 赤い満月 )
1997 Sakagami Hiroshi for Daidokoro ( 台所 ) and Oda Makoto for "Aboji" o fumu ( 『アボジ』を踏む )
1998 Murata Kiyoko for Shiomaneki ( 望潮 , " fiddler crabs")

1999 not awarded

2000 Iwasaka Keiko for Ame nochi ame? ( 雨のち雨？ ) and Medoruma Shun for Mabuigumime ( 魂込め )

2001 to 2010

2001 Kurumatani Chōkitsu for Musashimaru ( 武蔵丸 ) from Hakuchigun ( 白痴群 )
2002 Kōno Taeko for Han shoyūsha ( 半所有者 ) and Machida Kō for Gongen no odoriko ( 権現の踊り子 )
2003 Horie Toshiyuki for Sutansu dotto ( スタンス・ドット ) from Yukinuma to sono shūhen ( 雪沼とそのの周辺 ) and Aoyama Kōji for Wagimoko aishi ( 吾妹子哀し )
2004 Itoyama Akiko for Fukurokōji no otoko ( 袋小路の男 )
2005 Tsujihara Noboru for Kareha no naka no aoi homura ( 枯葉の中の青い炎 )
2006 Kakuta Mitsuyo for Rokku haha ( ロック母 )
2007 Koike Masayo　for Tatado ( タタド )
2008 Inaba Mayuki for Miru ( 海松 ) and Tanaka Shinya for Sanagi ( 蛹 )
2009 Aoyama Nanae for Kakera ( かけら ) as the youngest prize winner to date
2010 Takagi Nobuko for Tomosui ( トモスイ )

2011 to 2020

2011 Tsumura Setsuko for Ikyō ( 異郷 )
2012 Ekuni Kaori for Inu to hamonika ( 犬とハモニカ )
2013 Tsumura Kikuko for Kyūsuitō to kame ( 給水塔と亀 )
2014 Inui Akito for Suppon shinjū ( すっぽん心中 )
2015 Ōshiro Tatsuhiro for Rēru no mukō ( レールの向こう )
2016 Yamada Eimi for Seisen teruteru bōzu ( 生鮮てるてる坊主 )
2017 Enjō Tō for Mojika ( 文字渦 )
2018 Hosaka Kazushi for Koko to yoso ( こことよそ )

Web links

List of Shinchōsha Prize Winners (Japanese)