Akutagawa Prize
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The Akutagawa Prize is a Japanese literary award presented semi-annually. It was established in 1935 by Kan Kikuchi, then-editor of Bungeishunjū magazine, in memory of author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. It is currently sponsored by the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Literature, and is awarded in January ('E' in the list, below) and July ('L' in the list below) to the best serious literary story published in a newspaper or magazine by a new or rising author.
The winner receives a pocket watch and a cash award of 1 million yen. Short stories and novellas win the prize more frequently than do full-length novels. Because of its prestige and the considerable attention the winner receives from the media, it is Japan’s most sought after literary prize.
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Winners
- 001 1935E Tatsuzō Ishikawa for 蒼氓 Sōbō
- 002 1935L no prize awarded
- 003 1936E Oda Takeo for 城外 Jyōgai
- 003 1936E Tsuruta Tomoya for コシャマイン記 Koshamain ki
- 004 1936L Jun Ishikawa for 普賢 Fugen
- 004 1936L Tomisawa Uio for The Mediterranean Sea (地中海 Template:Lang)
- 005 1937E Ozaki Kazuo for Leisure Glasses (暢気眼鏡 Template:Lang)
- 006 1937L Ashihei Hino for 糞尿譚 Fun'nyōtan
- 007 1938E Nakayama Gishu for 厚物咲 Atsumonozaki
- 008 1938L Nakazato Tsuneko for 乗合馬車 Noriaibasha, Nikkōshitsu
- 009 1939E Handa Yoshiyuki for Chicken Trouble (鶏騒動 Template:Lang)
- 009 1939E Hase Ken for Children Of Asakusa (あさくさの子供 Template:Lang)
- 010 1939L Samukawa Kotaro for The Poacher (密猟者 Template:Lang)
- 011 1940E no prize awarded
- 012 1940L Sakurada Tsunehisa for 平賀源内 Hiraga gen'nai
- 013 1941E Tada Yukei for Choko Delta (長江デルタ Template:Lang)
- 014 1941L Shibaki Yoshiko for The Garden City (青果の市 Template:Lang)
- 015 1942E no prize awarded
- 016 1942L Kuramitsu Toshio for The Liaison (連絡員Template:Lang)
- 017 1943E Ishizuka Kikuzo for 纏足の頃 Chanzū no koro
- 018 1943L Tonobe Kaoru for 和紙 Washi
- 019 1944E Yagi Yoshinori for 劉廣福 Ryūkanbu
- 019 1944E Ono Juzo for The Ascent (登攀 Template:Lang)
- 020 1944L Shimizu Motoyoshi for Wild Geese (雁立 Template:Lang)
- 021 1949E Kotani Tsuyoshi for 確証 Kakushō
- 021 1949E Yuki Shigeko for 本の話 Hon no hanashi
- 022 1949L Inoue Yasushi for The Bullfight (闘牛 Template:Lang)
- 023 1950E Tsuji Ryoichi for The Foreigner (異邦人 Template:Lang)
- 024 1950L no prize awarded
- 025 1951E Abe Kobo for The Crime of S. Karuma (壁 S.カルマ氏の犯罪 Template:Lang)
- 025 1951E Ishikawa Toshimitsu for Spring Grass (春の草 Template:Lang)
- 026 1951L Hotta Yoshie for Hiroba no kotoku, kankan, sono ta
- 027 1952E no prize awarded
- 028 1952L Gomi Kosuke for 喪神 Sōshin
- 028 1952L Matsumoto Seicho for 或る「小倉日記」小伝 Aru kokura nikki den
- 029 1953E Yasuoka Shotaro for Bad Company, Dismal Fun (Template:Lang)
- 030 1953L no prize awarded
- 031 1954E Yoshiyuki Junnosuke for A Rain Shower (Template:Lang)
- 032 1954L Kojima Nobuo for American School (Template:Lang)
- 032 1954L Shono Junzo for A Poolside Scene (Template:Lang)
- 033 1955E Endo Shusaku for White Person (Template:Lang)
- 034 1955L Shintaro Ishihara for Season Of The Sun (Template:Lang)
- 035 1956E Kondo Keitaro for Kaijinfune
- 036 1956L no prize awarded
- 037 1957E Kikumura Itaru for Iwo Jima (Template:Lang)
- 038 1957L Kaiko Takeshi for The Emperor’s New Clothes (Template:Lang)
- 039 1958E Oe Kenzaburo for Prize Stock (Template:Lang)
- 040 1958L no prize awarded
- 041 1959E Shiba Shiro for Mountain Pagoda (Template:Lang)
- 042 1959L no prize awarded
- 043 1960E Morio Kita for In The Corner Of Night And Fog (Template:Lang)
- 044 1960L Miura Tetsuo for Hidden River (Template:Lang)
- 045 1961E no prize awarded
- 046 1961L Uno Koichiro for The Whale God (Template:Lang)
- 047 1962E Kawamura Akira for A Heroic Departure (Template:Lang)
- 048 1962L no prize awarded
- 049 1963E Goto Kiichi for A Boyhood Bridge (Template:Lang)
- 049 1963E Kono Taeko for Crab (Template:Lang)
- 050 1963L Tanabe Seiko for Sentimental Journey (Template:Lang)
- 051 1964E Shiba Shou for Saredo waga hibi
- 052 1964L no prize awarded
- 053 1965E Tsumura Setsuko for Toys (Template:Lang)
- 054 1965L Takai Yuichi for Northern Stream (Template:Lang)
- 055 1966E no prize awarded
- 056 1966L Maruyama Kenji for Summer’s Passage (Template:Lang)
- 057 1967E Oshiro Tatsuhiro for The Cocktail Party (Template:Lang)
- 058 1967L Kashiwabara Hyozo for Dosuke Tokoyama’s Returning Home (Template:Lang)
- 059 1968E Maruya Saiichi for Remains Of The Year (Template:Lang)
- 059 1968E Oba Minako for Three Crabs (Template:Lang)
- 060 1968L no prize awarded
- 061 1969E Shoji Kaoru for Little Red Riding Hood, Take Care (Template:Lang)
- 061 1969E Takuba Hideo for Deep River (Template:Lang)
- 062 1969L KiyookaTakayuki for Akashiya no tairen
- 063 1970E Yoshida Tomoko for Mumyōchōya
- 063 1970E Komao Furuyama for Pureō eito no yoake
- 064 1970L Yoshikichi Furui for Yoko (Template:Lang)
- 065 1971E no prize awarded
- 066 1971L Kaisei Ri for Kinuta wo utsu on’na
- 066 1971L Mineo Higashi for Okinawan Boy (Template:Lang)
- 067 1972E Hiroshi Hatayama for Sometimes The Whistle Blew (Template:Lang)
- 067 1972E Akio Miyahara for Dareka ga sawatta
- 068 1972L Michiko Yamamoto for Betty Boop’s Garden (Template:Lang)
- 068 1972L Shizuko Go for Requiem (Template:Lang)
- 069 1973E Taku Miki for Hiwa
- 070 1973L Kuninobu Noro for Vines (Template:Lang)
- 070 1973L Atsushi Mori for Lunar Mountain (Template:Lang)
- 071 1974E no prize awarded
- 072 1974L Keizo Hino for The Evening Sun (Template:Lang)
- 072 1974L Hiro Sakata for Earthen Vessel (Template:Lang)
- 073 1975E Kyoko Hayashi for Matsuri no ba
- 074 1975L Kenji Nakagami for The Cape (Template:Lang)
- 074 1975L Kazuo Okamatsu for Shikinoshima
- 075 1976E Ryu Murakami for Almost Transparent Blue (Template:Lang)
- 076 1976L no prize awarded
- 077 1977E Masahiro Mita for What Am I (Template:Lang)
- 077 1977E Masuo Ikeda for Offering In The Aegean (Template:Lang)
- 078 1977L Teru Miyamoto for Firefly River (Template:Lang)
- 078 1977L Shuzo Taki for The Nutmeg Tree Festival (Template:Lang)
- 079 1978E Kiichiro Takahashi for Nobuya
- 079 1978E Michitsuna Takahashi for September Sky (Template:Lang)
- 080 1978L no prize awarded
- 081 1979E Yoshiko Shigekane for Smoke In The Mountains (Template:Lang)
- 081 1979E So Aono for Night Of The Idiots (Template:Lang)
- 082 1979L Reiko Mori for The City Of Mockingbirds (Template:Lang)
- 083 1980E no prize awarded
- 084 1980L Katsuhiko Otsuji for My Father Vanished (Template:Lang)
- 085 1981E Rie Yoshiyuki for Little Lady (Template:Lang)
- 086 1981L no prize awarded
- 087 1982E no prize awarded
- 088 1982L Yukiko Kato for Wall of Dreams (Template:Lang)
- 088 1982L Juro Kara for A Letter From Young Sagawa (Template:Lang)
- 089 1983E no prize awarded
- 090 1983L Jun Kasahara for Mokoji's World (Template:Lang)
- 090 1983L Nobuko Takagi for Hold The LIght, Friend (Template:Lang)
- 091 1984E no prize awarded
- 092 1984L Satoko Kizaki for Blue Paulownia (Template:Lang)
- 093 1985E no prize awarded
- 094 1985L Fumiko Kometani for The Passover (Template:Lang)
- 095 1986E no prize awarded
- 096 1986L no prize awarded
- 097 1987E Kiyoko Murata for In The Pot (Template:Lang)
- 098 1987L Natsuki Ikezawa for Still Lives (Template:Lang)
- 098 1987L Kiyohiro Miura for He’s Leaving Home (Template:Lang)
- 099 1988E Man Arai for The Missing’s Time (Template:Lang)
- 100 1988L Keishi Nagi for Diamond Dust (Template:Lang)
- 100 1988L Yanji I for Yuhi
- 101 1989E no prize awarded
- 102 1989L Akira Ooka for Hyōsō seikatsu
- 102 1989L Mieko Takizawa for Nekobaba no iru machi de
- 103 1990E Noboru Tsujihara for A Village’s Name (Template:Lang)
- 104 1990L Yoko Ogawa for Pregnancy Calendar (Template:Lang)
- 105 1991E Yo Henmi for The Automatic Wake-up Machine (Template:Lang)
- 105 1991E Anna Ogino for Water Burden (Template:Lang)
- 106 1991L Eiko Matsumura for Uptown (Template:Lang)
- 107 1992E Tomomi Fujiwara for Driver (Template:Lang)
- 108 1992L Yoko Tawada for The Bridegroom Was A Dog (Template:Lang)
- 109 1993E Haruhiko Yoshimeki for Sekiryōkōya
- 110 1993L Hikaru Okuizumi for The Stones Cry Out (Template:Lang)
- 111 1994E Mitsuhiro Muroi for Odorodeku
- 111 1994E Yoriko Shono for The Time Slip Industrial Complex (Template:Lang)
- 112 1994L no prize awarded
- 113 1995E Kazushi Hosaka for Kono hito no iki
- 114 1995L Matayoshi Eiki for Pig's retribution (Template:Lang)
- 115 1996E Hiromi Kawakami for Tread On A Snake (Template:Lang)
- 116 1996L Hitonari Tsuji for The Light from the Strait (Template:Lang)
- 116 1996L Miri Yu for Family Cinema (Template:Lang)
- 117 1997E Shun Medoruma for A Drop Of Water (Template:Lang)
- 118 1997L no prize awarded
- 119 1998E Mangetsu Hanamura for Geranium Nights (Template:Lang)
- 119 1998E Shu Fujisawa for Midnight In Buenos Aires (Template:Lang)
- 120 1998L Keiichiro Hirano for Eclipse (Template:Lang)
- 121 1999E no prize awarded
- 122 1999L Gengetsu for A Dwelling In The Shade (Template:Lang)
- 122 1999L Chiya Fujino for Summer Promise (Template:Lang)
- 123 2000E Kou Machida for Shreds (Template:Lang)
- 123 2000E Hisaki Matsuura for A Spoiling Rain (Template:Lang)
- 124 2000L Yuichi Seirai for Holy Water (Template:Lang)
- 124 2000L Toshiyuki Horie for The Bear And The Paving Stone (Template:Lang)
- 125 2001E Sokyu Genyu for Flowers In Limbo (Template:Lang)
- 126 2001L Yu Nagashima for More Speed Mama (Template:Lang)
- 127 2002E Shuichi Yoshida for Park Life (Template:Lang)
- 128 2002L Tamaki Daido for Salty Drives (しょっぱいドライブ Template:Lang)
- 129 2003E Manichi Yoshimura for The Hairworm (ハリガネムシ Template:Lang)
- 130 2003L Risa Wataya for A Back I Want To Kick (蹴りたい背中 Template:Lang)
- 130 2003L Hitomi Kanehara for Snakes and Earrings (蛇にピアス Template:Lang)
- 131 2004E Norio Mobu for Introduction to Nursing Care (介護入門 Template:Lang)
- 132 2004L Kazushige Abe for Grand Finale (グランド・フィナーレ Template:Lang)
- 133 2005E Fuminori Nakamura for A Child in the Ground (土の中の子供 Template:Lang)
- 134 2005L Akiko Itoyama for Waiting Offshore (沖で待つ Template:Lang)
- 135 2006E Takami Itō for Throwing Stuff Away on a Road in August (八月の路上に捨てる Template:Lang)
- 136 2006L Nanae Aoyama for Hitori Biyori (ひとり日和)
- 137 2007E Tetsushi Suwa for Asatte no Hito (アサッテの人)
- 138 2007L Mieko Kawakami for Chichi to Ran (乳と卵)
- 139 2008E Yang Yi (author) for Toki ga Nijimu Asa (時が滲む朝)
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Current members of the selection committee
- Natsuki Ikezawa
- Shintaro Ishihara
- Hiromi Kawakami
- Senji Kuroi
- Ryu Murakami
- Teru Miyamoto
- Yoko Ogawa
- Nobuko Takagi
- Amy Yamada
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Special occurrences
Occasionally, when consensus cannot be reached between judges over disputes about the winning story or the quality of work for that half year, no prize is awarded. The judges usually include contemporary writers, literary critics, and former winners of the prize. From 1945 through 1948, no prizes were awarded due to postwar instability.
On January 15, 2004, the awarding of the 130th Akutagawa Prize made significant news when two women became the award’s youngest winners. The prize went to both Wataya Risa, 19, and Kanehara Hitomi, 20. Previously, the youngest Akutagawa winners were all males over 23 years old, among them the current Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara and novelist Kenzaburo Oe who later went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994.
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