Naoki Prize

Template:Short description Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The Naoki Prize, officially Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. It was created in 1935 by Kikuchi Kan, then editor of the Bungeishunjū magazine, and named in memory of novelist Naoki Sanjugo.^[1] Sponsored by the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Literature, the award recognizes "the best work of popular literature in any format by a new, rising, or (reasonably young) established author."^[2] The winner receives a watch and one million yen.^[3]

Kikuchi founded the Naoki Prize with the Akutagawa Prize, which targets a new or rising author of literary fiction. The two prizes are viewed as "two sides of the same coin" and inseparable from one another. Because of the prestige associated with the Naoki Prize and the considerable attention the winner receives from the media, it, along with the Akutagawa Prize, is one of Japan's most sought after literary awards of recognition.^[3]^[4]

Winners

Bungeishunjū maintains the official archive of past Naoki Prize winners.^[5]

1st–100th

1935	1	Matsutarō Kawaguchi	Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1935	2	Uko Washio	Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., etc.
1936	3	Chōgorō Kaionji	Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1936	4	Takatarō Kigi	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1937	5	No prize awarded
1937	6	Masuji Ibuse	Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., etc.
1938	7	Sotoo Tachibana	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1938	8	Tadao Ooike	Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1939	9	No prize awarded
1939	10	No prize awarded
1940	11	Chiyo Tsutsumi Sensuke Kawachi	Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., etc. Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1940	12	Genzō Murakami	Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., etc.
1941	13	Sōjū Kimura	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1941	14	No prize awarded
1942	15	No prize awarded
1942	16	Norio Taoka Takio Kanzaki	Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., etc. Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., etc.
1943	17	No prize awarded	(Shūgorō Yamamoto's Script error: No such module "Nihongo". was chosen, but he declined the prize.)
1943	18	Sōichi Mori	Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1944	19	Seizō Okada	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1944	20	No prize awarded
1949	21	Tsuneo Tomita	Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1949	22	Katsurō Yamada	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1950	23	Hidemi Kon Itoko Koyama	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1950	24	Kazuo Dan	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1951	25	Keita Genji	Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1951	26	Juran Hisao Renzaburō Shibata	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1952	27	Shinji Fujiwara	Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., etc.
1952	28	Nobuyuki Tateno	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1953	29	No prize awarded
1953	30	No prize awarded
1954	31	Yorichika Arima	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1954	32	Haruo Umezaki Yukio Togawa	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1955	33	No prize awarded
1955	34	Jirō Nitta Eikan Kyū	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1956	35	Norio Nanjō Kanichi Kon	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1956	36	Tōkō Kon Miharu Hozumi	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1957	37	Masanori Esaki	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1957	38	No prize awarded
1958	39	Toyoko Yamasaki Eiji Shinba	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1958	40	Saburō Shiroyama Kyō Takigawa	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1959	41	Kieko Watanabe Yumie Hiraiwa	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1959	42	Ryōtarō Shiba Yasuji Toita	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1960	43	Shōtarō Ikenami	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1960	44	Daikichi Terauchi Jūgo Kuroiwa	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1961	45	Tsutomu Minakami	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1961	46	Keiichi Itō	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1962	47	Hisahide Sugimori	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1962	48	Hitomi Yamaguchi Sonoko Sugimoto	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1963	49	Tokuji Satō	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1963	50	Tsuruo Andō Yoshie Wada	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1964	51	No prize awarded
1964	52	Michiko Nagai Atsuko Anzai	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1965	53	Shigeo Fujii	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1965	54	Yūkichi Shinbashi Jihei Chiba	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1966	55	Masaaki Tachihara	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1966	56	Hiroyuki Itsuki	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1967	57	Jirō Ikushima	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1967	58	Akiyuki Nosaka^[6] Tooru Miyoshi	Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1968	59	No prize awarded
1968	60	Shunshin Chin Mitsugu Saotome	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1969	61	Aiko Satō	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1969	62	No prize awarded
1970	63	Junichi Watanabe^[7] Yūki Shōji	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1970	64	Jō Toyoda	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1971	65	No prize awarded
1971	66	No prize awarded
1972	67	Hisashi Inoue Kenjō Tsunabuchi	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1972	68	No prize awarded
1973	69	Shuhei Fujisawa^[8] Hideo Osabe	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1973	70	No prize awarded
1974	71	Giichi Fujimoto	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1974	72	Ryō Hanmura Magoroku Ide	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1975	73	No prize awarded
1975	74	Ryuzo Saki	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1976	75	No prize awarded
1976	76	Kyōzō Miyoshi	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1977	77	No prize awarded
1977	78	No prize awarded
1978	79	Yō Tsumoto Takehiro Irokawa	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1978	80	Tomiko Miyao Natsuo Ariake	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1979	81	Takashi Atōda^[9] Komimasa Tanaka	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1979	82	No prize awarded
1980	83	Kuniko Mukōda Kageki Shimoda	Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1980	84	Masanori Nakamura	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1981	85	Yukio Aoshima	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1981	86	Kôhei Tsuka Akira Mitsuoka	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1982	87	Yūsuke Fukada Tomomi Muramatsu	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1982	88	No prize awarded
1983	89	Kōshi Kurumizawa	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1983	90	Takurō Kanki Osamu Takahashi	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1984	91	Mikihiko Renjō Toshizō Nanba	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1984	92	No prize awarded
1985	93	Yōko Yamaguchi	Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1985	94	Seigo Morita Mariko Hayashi	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1986^[10]	95	Hiroko Minagawa	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1986^[10]	96	Gō Ōsaka Shinpei Tokiwa	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1987^[10]	97	Amy Yamada Ichirō Shiraishi	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1987^[10]	98	Makio Abe	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1988	99	Tamio Kageyama Masaaki Nishiki	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1988	100	Akiko Sugimoto Shizuko Tōdō	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".

101st to present

1989	101	Nejime Shōichi Akira Sasakura	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1989	102	Seiji Hashikawa Ryō Hara	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1990	103	Tsumao Awasaka	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1990	104	Kaoru Furukawa	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1991	105	Masamitsu Miyagitani Sunao Ashihara	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1991	106	Yoshio Takahashi Katsuhiko Takahashi	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1992	107	Shizuka Ijūin	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1992	108	Tatsurō Dekune	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1993	109	Kaoru Takamura Aiko Kitahara	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1993	110	Arimasa Osawa Masayoshi Satō	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1994	111	Akihiko Nakamura Yasuhisa Ebisawa	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1994	112	No prize awarded
1995	113	Shun Akasegawa	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1995	114	Mariko Koike Iori Fujiwara	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1996^[11]	115	Asa Nonami	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1996^[11]	116	Masako Bandō	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1997	117	Setsuko Shinoda Jirō Asada	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1997	118	No prize awarded
1998	119	Chōkitsu Kurumatani	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1998	120	Miyuki Miyabe	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1999	121	Kenichi Satō Natsuo Kirino	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
1999	122	Rei Nakanishi	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2000	123	Yoichi Funado Kazuki Kaneshiro	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Go
2000	124	Kiyoshi Shigematsu Fumio Yamamoto	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2001	125	Yoshinaga Fujita^[12]	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2001	126	Ichiriki Yamamoto Kei Yuikawa	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2002	127	Yuzaburō Otokawa	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2002	128	No prize awarded
2003	129	Ira Ishida Yuka Murayama	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2003	130	Kaori Ekuni Natsuhiko Kyogoku	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2004	131	Hideo Okuda Tatsuya Kumagai	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2004	132	Mitsuyo Kakuta	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2005	133	Minato Shukawa	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2005	134	Keigo Higashino	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2006	135	Shion Miura Eto Mori	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2006	136	No prize awarded
2007	137	Kesako Matsui	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2007	138^[13]	Kazuki Sakuraba	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2008	139	Areno Inoue	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2008	140	Arata Tendo Ken'ichi Yamamoto	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2009	141	Kaoru Kitamura	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2009	142	Jō Sasaki Kazufumi Shiraishi	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2010	143	Kyōko Nakajima	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2010	144	Nobori Kiuchi Shūsuke Michio	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2011	145^[14]	Jun Ikeido	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2011	146^[15]	Rin Hamuro	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2012	147	Mizuki Tsujimura	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2012	148^[16]	Asai Ryo Abe Ryutaro	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2013	149^[17]	Shino Sakuragi	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2013	150^[18]	Makate Asai Kaoruko Himeno	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2014	151^[19]	Hiroyuki Kurokawa	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2014	152^[20]	Kanako Nishi	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2015	153	Akira Higashiyama	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2015	154	Bunpei Aoyama	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2016	155	Hiroshi Ogiwara	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2016	156^[21]	Riku Onda	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2017	157^[22]	Shogo Sato	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2017	158^[23]	Yoshinobu Kadoi	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2018	159^[24]	Rio Shimamoto	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2018	160^[25]	Junjō Shindō	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2019	161^[26]	Masumi Oshima	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2019	162^[27]	Soichi Kawagoe	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2020	163^[28]	Hase Seishū	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2020	164^[29]	Naka Saijo	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2021	165^[30]	Toko Sawada Norikazu Sato	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2021	166^[31]	Shogo Imamura Honobu Yonezawa	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2022	167^[32]	Misumi Kubo	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2022	168^[33]	Satoshi Ogawa Akane Chihaya	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2023	169^[34]	Ryōsuke Kakine Sayako Nagai	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2023	170^[35]	Akiko Kawasaki Manabu Makime	Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2024	171^[36]	Michi Ichiho	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".
2024	172^[37]	Shin Iyohara	Script error: No such module "Nihongo".

Winners available in English translation

1961 (45th) - Tsutomu Mizukami, The Temple of the Wild Geese (In The Temple of the Wild Geese and Bamboo Dolls of Echizen, trans. Dennis C. Washburn, Dalkey Archive Press, 2008)
1967 (57th) - Akiyuki Nosaka, American Hijiki (In The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, trans. Jay Rubin, Penguin Books, 2017) / A Grave of Fireflies (In Japan Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 4, trans. James R. Abrams, 1978)
1973 (69th) - Hideo Osabe, Tsugaru Jonkarabushi and Tsugaru Yosarebushi (In Voices from the Snow, trans. James N. Westerhoven, Hirosaki University Press, 2009)
1979 (81st) - Takashi Atōda, "Napoleon Crazy", "The Visitor", and "The Transparent Fish" (In Napoleon Crazy and other stories, trans. Stanleigh H. Jones, Kodansha International, 1986) / "Of Golf and Its Beginnings" and "A Treatise on Count St. German" (In The Square Persimmon and other stories, trans. Millicent M. Horton, Tuttle Publishing, 1991)
1986 (96th) - Go Osaka, The Red Star of Cadiz (trans. Usha Jayaraman, Kurodahan Press, 2008)
1993 (109th) - Aiko Kitahara, The Budding Tree (trans. Ian MacDonald, Dalkey Archive Press, 2008)
1996 (115th) - Asa Nonami, The Hunter (trans. Juliet Winters Carpenter, Kodansha International, 2006)
1997 (117th) - Jirō Asada, The Stationmaster (trans. Terry Gallagher, Viz Media, 2009)
1998 (119th) - Chōkitsu Kurumatani, The Paradise Bird Tattoo (trans. Kenneth J. Bryson, Counterpoint, 2010)
2000 (123rd)
- Yoichi Funado, May in the Valley of the Rainbow (trans. Eve Alison Nyren, Vertical, 2006)
- Kazuki Kaneshiro, Go (trans. Takami Nieda, AmazonCrossing, 2018)
2005 (134th) - Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X (trans. Alexander O. Smith, Minotaur Books, 2011)
2010 (143rd) - Kyoko Nakajima, The Little House (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori, Darf Publishing, 2019)
2016 (156th) - Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder (trans. Philip Gabriel, Pegasus Books, 2023)
2018 (159th) - Rio Shimamoto, First Love (trans. Louise Heal Kawai, Honford Star, 2024)
2020 (163rd) - Hase Seishū, The Boy and the Dog (trans. Alison Watts, Viking Press, 2022)
2021 (166th) - Honobu Yonezawa, The Samurai and the Prisoner (trans. Giuseppe di Martino, Yen Press, 2023)

Current members of the selection committee

(As of 2024)^[38]

References

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Naoki Prize

Contents

Winners

1st–100th

101st to present

Winners available in English translation

Current members of the selection committee

See also

References

External links

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Naoki Prize

Winners

1st–100th

101st to present

Winners available in English translation

Current members of the selection committee

See also

References

External links

Navigation menu

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