Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Prize

The Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Prize ( Japanese 谷崎潤一郎賞 Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Shō ) is named after the Japanese writer Jun'ichirō Tanizaki . The price was founded in 1965 on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the magazine Chūōkōron by the publishing house Chūōkōron Shinsha . It is awarded annually for representative narrative prose or dramas.

List of Tanizaki Prize Winners

1965 to 1970

1965 Nobuo Kojima for Hōyō kazoku ( 抱擁家族 )
1966 Shūsaku Endō for silence ( 沈黙 , Chinmoku )
1967 Kenzaburō Ōe for The Dumb Scream ( 万延元年のフットボール , Man'en gannen no futtobōru )
1967 Kobo Abe for Tomodachi ( 友達 )
1968 not awarded
1969 Fumiko Enchi for Ake o ubau mono / Kizu aru tsubasa ; Niji to shura ( 朱を奪うもの / 傷ある翼 / 虹と修羅 )
1970 Yutaka Haniya for Yami no naka no kuroi uma ( 闇のなかの黒い馬 )
1970 Junnosuke Yoshiyuki for Anshitsu ( 暗室 )

1971 to 1980

1971 Hiroshi Noma for his no wa ( 青年の環 )
1972 Saiichi Maruya for The Rebellion of One Individual ( たった一人の反乱 , Tatta hitori no hanran )
1973 Otohiko Kaga for Kaerazaru natsu ( 帰らざる夏 )
1974 Yoshimi Usui for Azumino ( 安曇野 )
1975 Tsutomu Minakami for Ikkyū ( 一休)
1976 Shizuo Fujieda for Denshin yūraku ( 田紳有楽 )
1977 Toshio Shimao for Hi no utsuroi ( 日の移ろい )
1978 Shinichiro Nakamura for Natsu ( 夏 )
1979 Komimasa Tanaka for Poroporo ( ポロポロ )
1980 Taeko Kōno for Ichinen no bokka ( 一年の牧歌 )

1981 to 1990

1981 Shichiro Fukazawa for Michinoku no ningyotachi ( みちのくの人形たち )
1981 Akio Goto for Yoshino-tayū ( 吉野大夫 )
1982 Minako Ōba for Katachi mo naku ( 寂兮寥兮 )
1983 Yoshikichi Furui for Asagao ( 槿 )
1984 Senji Kuroi for Gunsei ( 群棲 )
1984 Yuichi Takai for Kono kuni no sora ( この国の空 )
1985 Haruki Murakami for Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World ( 世界の終わりとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド , Sekai no owari to Hādoboirudo Wandārando )
1986 Keizō Hino for Sakyū ga ugoku yō ni ( 砂丘が動くように )
1987 Yasutaka Tsutsui for Yume no kizaka bunkiten ( 夢の木坂分岐点 )
1988 not awarded
1989 not awarded
1990 Kyoko Hayashi for Yasuraka ni ima wa nemuri tamae ( やすらかに今はねむり給え )

1991 to 2000

1991 Hisashi Inoue for Shanghai Moon ( シャンハイムーン , Shanhai Mūn )
1992 Jakuchō Setouchi for Hana ni toe ( 花に問え )
1993 Natsuki Ikezawa for the rise and fall of Macias Guili ( マシアス・ギリの失脚 , Mashiasu Giri no shikkyaku )
1994 Takashi Tsujii for Niji no misaki ( 虹の岬 )
1995 Kunio Tsuji for Saigyō kaden ( 西行花伝 )
1996 not awarded
1997 Kazushi Hosaka for Kisetsu no kioku ( 季節の記憶 )
1997 Taku Miki for Roji ( 路地 )
1998 Yūko Tsushima for Hi no yama - yamazaruki ( 火の山 - 山猿記 )
1999 Nobuko Takagi for Tokō no ki ( 透光の樹 )
2000 Noboru Tsujihara for Yūdōtei Enboku ( 遊動亭円木 )
2000 Ryū Murakami for Kyōseichū ( 共生虫 )

2001 to 2010

2001 Hiromi Kawakami for The sky is blue, the earth is white ( Sensei no kaban センセイの鞄 , The teacher's portfolio )
2002 not awarded
2003 Yoko Tawada for Yōgisha no yakō ressha ( 容疑者の夜行列車 )
2004 Toshiyuki Horie for Yukinuma to sono shūhen ( 雪沼とその周辺 )
2005 Kō Machida for Kokuhaku ( 告白 )
2005 Eimi Yamada for Fūmi zekka ( 風味絶佳 )
2006 Yōko Ogawa for Mīna no Kōshin ( ミーナの行進 )
2007 Yuichi Seirai for Bakushin ( 爆心 )
2008 Natsuo Kirino for Tōkyō-jima ( 東京島 )
2009 not awarded
2010 Kazushige Abe for Pistols ( ピストルズ , Pisutoruzu )

2011 to 2020

2011 Inaba Mayumi for Hantō e ( 半島へ )
2012 Takahashi Gen'ichirō for Sayonara Christopher Robin ( さよならクリストファー・ロビン )
2013 Kawakami Mieko for Ai no yume toka ( 愛の夢とか )
2014 Okuizumi Hikaru for Tōkyō jijoden ( 東京自叙伝 )
2015 Ekuni Kaori for Yamori, kaeru, shijimichō ( ヤモリ、カエルル、シジミチョウ )
2016 Itoyama Akiko for Hakujō ( 薄情 ) and Nagashima Yū for San no tonari wa gogōshitsu ( 三の隣は五号室 )
2017 Matsuura Hisaki for Meiyo to kōkotsu ( 名誉と恍惚 )
2018 Hoshino Tomoyuki for Honō ( 焔 )
2019 Murata Kiyoko for Hizoku ( 飛族 )

Web links

List of prizewinners at Chūōkōron Shinsha (Japanese)