Akutagawa Prize

The Akutagawa Prize (Japanese Akutagawa Ryunosuke芥川龙之介 赏shō ) is the most prestigious award for Japanese -speaking authors. The donated by Kikuchi Kan Prize has been awarded since 1935 twice a year in January and in July, is worth 1 million yen and has for the Japanese literature the same meaning, such as the Prix Goncourt for French literature. Named the Akutagawa Prize by the Japanese writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke.

List of winners

Jun Ishikawa (author) Tsuneko Nakazato Nobuo Kojima Morio Kita Saiichi Maruya Taku Miki Teru Miyamoto Noriko Sengoku Shun Medoruma Toshiyuki Horie Kazushige Abe Nanae Aoyama Tetsushi Suwa Mieko Kawakami Literary award Dazai Osamu Prize Edogawa Rampo Award Mishima Yukio Prize Noma Literary Prize Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Yomiuri Prize
38964
de