Japanese Literature Grand Prize

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The Grand Prize for Japanese Literature ( Japanese 日本 文学 大 賞 , Nihon Bungaku Taishō ) was a literary prize for Japanese literature that was awarded annually from 1969 to 1988 by the Society of Shinchō Publishing House for the Promotion of Literature . It is one of the three great literary prizes of the Shinchō publishing house ( 三大 新潮 賞 , Midai Shinchōshō).

Award criteria and procedure

  • The prize is awarded for novels, literary reviews , poetry ( 詩歌 ) and plays ( 戯曲 ).
  • The selection committee consists of 4 people who change every year.
  • Selection criteria:
    • 1969–1972: The award was given to independent publications that appeared between January and December the previous year.
    • 1973: The award went to independent publications that were published between January of the previous year and April in the year of the award, i.e. H. between January 1972 and April 1973.
    • from 1974 on: the award was given to independent publications that were published between May of the previous year and April in the year of the award.
    • Works by people who belong to the selection committee are excluded from the award in the year in which they belong to the selection committee.
  • The winners will receive 1 million yen in prize money.
  • The award-winning work is announced in the literary magazine Shinchō .
  • In 1984 the following new regulations were adopted:
    • Since 1984 the prize has been awarded separately for scientific (i.e. non-fiction ) and literary works.
    • There is a five-person selection committee for both areas.
    • The works of the members of the selection committee were accepted for the award.
  • 1988 The three great literary prizes of the Shinchō-Verlag were converted into the four prizes of the Shinchō-Verlag ( 新潮 四 賞 ) and the awarding of the great literary prize for Japanese literature was formally discontinued.
    • The award for literature was divided into the Mishima Prize for so-called pure literature and the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize ( 山 本 周五郎 賞 ) for entertainment literature.
    • The award for scientific publications was converted into the Shinchō Prize for Science ( 新潮 学 芸 賞 , Shinchō Gakuenshō). It is currently being continued as the Kobayashi Hideo Prize and the Shinchō Documentation Prize ( 新潮 ド キ ュ メ ン ト 賞 , Shinchō Dokyumento-shō).
    • The last selection committee for the non-fiction book in 1987 continued its work as a selection committee for the Shinchō Prize for Science .

Award winners

1969-1980

  • 1969
  • 1970
  • 1971
  • 1972
    • Selection committee
      • Inoue Yasushi, Endō Shūsaku, Takeda Taijun, Hirano Ken
    • Award winners
    • Candidates
      • Sugiura Minpei for Watanabe Kazan ( 渡 辺 崋 山 )
      • Tsuji Kunio for Sagano meigetsuki ( 嵯峨野 明月 記 )
      • Mishima Yukiō for Hōjō no umi ( 豊 饒 の 海 )
  • 1973
    • Selection committee
    • Award winners
      • Takeda Taijun for Kairaku ( 快 楽 )
    • Candidates
      • Abe Kōbō for Hakootoko ( 箱 男 )
      • Kaikō Takeshi for Natsu no yami ( 夏 の 闇 )
      • Yamaguchi Hitomi for Hitogoroshi ( 人 殺 し )
  • 1974
  • 1975
    • Selection committee
    • Award winners
      • not forgiven
    • Candidates
      • Uno Chiyo for Usuzumi no sakura ( 薄 墨 の 桜 )
      • Ōba Minako for Garakuta kakubutsukan ( が ら く た 博物館 )
      • Kōno Taeko for Mukankei ( 無 関係 )
      • Shōno Junzō for Yasumi no akuru hi ( 休 み の あ く る 日 )
      • Tomioka Taeko for Meido no kazoku ( 冥 土 の 家族 )
      • Nakamura Shinichirō for Shiki ( 四季 )
      • Miura Tetsuo for Ya ( 野 )
      • Yasuoka Shōtarō for Shisetsu ( 私 説 聊 斎 志 異 )
      • Yoshiyuki Junnosuke for Kaban no nakami ( 鞄 の 中 身 )
      • Karaki Junzō for Azum amichi no ku ( あ づ ま み ち の く )
      • Saeki Shōichi for Nihon no watashi o motomete ( 日本 の 「私」 を 索 め て )
      • Hirano Ken for Samazama na seishun ( さ ま ざ ま な 青春 )
      • Yamamoto Kenkichi for Masamune Hakuchō ( 正宗 白鳥 )
  • 1976
    • Selection committee
    • Award winners
    • Candidates
      • Abe Kōbō for Warau tsuki ( 笑 う 月 )
      • Ōoka Shōhei for Shōnen ( 少年 )
      • Shiba Ryōtarō for Kūkai no fūkei ( 空 海 の 風景 )
      • Yoshiyuki Junnosuke for Osoroshii basho ( 恐 ろ し い 場所 )
      • Ōoka Makoto for Okakura Kakuzō ( 岡 倉 天 心 )
  • 1977
  • 1978
  • 1979
    • Selection committee
      • Ōe Kenzaburō, Shiba Ryōtarō, Niwa Fumio, Maruyama Seiichi
    • Award winners
      • Kaga Otohiko for Senkoku ( 宣告 )
      • Yamamoto Kenkichi for Uta no jikaku no rekishi ( 詩 の 自 覚 の 歴 史 )
  • 1980

1981-1987

  • 1981
    • Selection committee
      • Etō Jun, Kaga Otohiko, Shinoda Hajime , Yasuoka Shōtarō, Yamamoto Kenkichi
    • Award winners
      • Kojima Nobuo for Watashi no sakka henrenki ( 私 の 作家 遍 歴 )
  • 1982
    • Selection committee
      • Isoda Kōichi , Endō Shūsaku, Shiba Ryōtarō, Nakamura Shinichirō, Maruyama Seiichi
    • Award winners
      • Inoue Yasushi for ? ibun ( 本 覚 坊 異 聞 )
      • Yasuoka Shōtarō for Ryūritan ? ( 流離 譚 )
  • 1983
    • Selection committee
      • Etō Jun, Kaikō Takeshi, Shinoda Hajime, Matsumoto Seichō, Mizukami Tsutomu
    • Award winners
      • Miura Tetsuo for Shonen sanka ( 少年 讃 歌 )
  • 1984
    • literature
      • Selection committee
        • Endō Shūsaku, Kaikō Takeshi, Shinoda Hajime, Matsumoto Seich ?, Mizukami Tsutomu
      • Award winners
    • Non-fiction
      • Selection committee
      • Award winners
        • Shiba Ryōtarō for Kaidō o yuku (22) Nanban no michi I ( 街道 を ゆ く ・ （二 十二） 南蛮 の み ち I )
  • 1985
    • literature
      • Selection committee
        • Endō Shūsaku, Kaikō Takeshi, Shinoda Hajime, Matsumoto Mitsuo, Mizukami Tsutomu
      • Award winners
        • Nakamura Shinichirō for Fuyu ( 冬 )
    • Non-fiction
      • Selection committee
        • Abe Kōbō, Kōsaka Masataka, Shiba Ryōtarō, Yanagida Kunio, Yamamoto Shichihei
      • Award winners
  • 1986
    • literature
      • Selection committee
        • Endō Shūsaku, Kaikō Takeshi, Shinoda Hajime, Matsumoto Seichō, Mizukami Tsutomu
      • Award winners
        • Kita Morio for Kagakeru aokisora ​​no shita de ( 輝 け る 碧 き 空 の 下 で ) second part
        • Nogami Yaeko for Mori ( 森 )
    • Non-fiction
      • Selection committee
        • Abe Kōbō, Kōsaka Masataka, Shiba Ryōtarō, Yanagida Kunio, Yamamoto Shichihei
      • Award winners
        • Tsunoda Tadanobu for Nō no hakken ( 脳 の 発 見 )
        • NHK for 21 seiki wa keikokusuru ( 21 世紀 は 警告 す る ), part 1–6
  • 1987
    • literature
      • Selection committee
        • Endō Shūsaku, Kaikō Takeshi, Shinoda Hajime, Matsumoto Seichō, Mizukami Tsutomu
      • Award winners
        • Kaikō Takeshi for Yabureta mayu mimi no monogatari ( 破 れ た 繭 耳 の 物語 ), Yoru to kagerō mimi no monogatari ( 夜 と 陽 炎 耳 の 物語 )
    • Non-fiction
      • Selection committee
        • Abe Kōbō, Kōsaka Masataka, Shiba Ryōtarō, Yanagida Kunio, Yamamoto Shichihei
      • Award winners

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