The Mainichi Publishing Culture Award (毎日出版文化賞, Mainichi Shuppan Bunka Shō) is an annual award given to distinguished literary works and activities in the sectors literature and art, humanities and social science, natural science, and encyclopedic work, plus a special award. It was founded in 1947 and is sponsored by the Mainichi Newspapers Co., the publishing house of the Mainichi Shimbun.[1]
Recipients (selected)
edit- 1947
- Literature and art award for Jun'ichirō Tanizaki for Sasameyuki (The Makioka Sisters)
- Literature and art award for Yuriko Miyamoto for Kazeshirigusa and Harimaheiya
- 1948
- Literature and art award for Michio Takeyama for Biruma no tategoto
- 1951
- Literature and art award for Kōnosuke Hinatsu for Nihon gendaishi taikei
- 1952
- Literature and art award for Hiroshi Noma for Shinkū chitai
- 1954
- Literature and art award for Sue Sumii for Yoru ake asa ake
- 1955
- Literature and art award for Ken Domon for Murō-ji
- Literature and art award for Shigeharu Nakano for Muragimo
- 1958
- Literature and art award for Shūsaku Endō for Umi to dokuyaku
- 1959
- Literature and art award for Shūgorō Yamamoto for Mominoki wa nokotta
- Literature and art award for Saisei Murō for Waga aisuru shijin no denki
- Literature and art award for Junji Kinoshita for Dorama no sekai
- 1960
- Literature and art award for Tomie Ōhara for En to iu onna
- 1961
- Literature and art award for Shōhei Ōoka for Kaei
- Literature and art award for Tarō Okamoto for Wasurerareta nihon
- 1962
- Literature and art award for Yasunari Kawabata for Nemure bijo (The House of the Sleeping Beauties)
- 1963
- Literature and art award for Kazuo Hirotsu for Nengatsu no ahioto
- 1964
- Literature and art award for Morio Kita for Nireke no hitobito (The House of Nire)
- 1965
- Literature and art award for Haruo Umezaki for Genka
- 1966
- Literature and art award for Junji Kinoshita for Mugenkidō
- 1967
- Literature and art award for Shōtarō Yasuoka for Maku ga orite kara
- 1968
- Literature and art award for Takeshi Kaikō for Kagayakeru yami
- 1969
- Literature and art award for Jūkichi Uno for Shingeki tanoshi kanashi
- 1972
- Literature and art award for Junzō Shōno for Akio to Ryoji
- 1973
- Literature and art award for Akira Abe for Sennen
- 1974
- Literature and art award for Saburō Shiroyama for Rakujitsu moyu
- Literature and art award for Shin'ichirō Nakamura for Kono hyakunen no shōsetsu
- 1976
- Literature and art award for Hideo Takubo for Kami no wa
- 1977
- Literature and art award for Kenji Nakagami for Karekinada
- 1978
- Literature and art award for Chikao Tanaka for Gekiteki buntairon josetsu
- 1994
- Literature and art award for Hiroyuki Agawa for Shiga Naoya
- 1995
- Literature and art award for Tadao Satō for Nihon eiga-shi
- 2001
- Literature and art award for Taeko Tomioka for Arikuchi Shinobu nōto
- 2004
- Literature and art award for Kazushige Abe for Shinsemia
- 2005
- Literature and art award for Ryū Murakami for Hanto o deyo (From the Fatherland, with Love)
- 2007
- Literature and art award for Shuichi Yoshida for Akunin (Villain)[2]
- 2009
- Literature and art award for Haruki Murakami for 1Q84
- 2020
- Humanities and social science award for Takehiko Kariya for Oitsuita Kindai Keita Kindai (Who killed Japan's Modernity? What Comes after 'Catch-Up?')[3]
References
edit- ^ "第７２回毎日出版文化賞決まる (The 72nd Mainichi Publication Culture Award is decided)". Mainichi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ "Shuichi Yoshida". Melbourne University Publishing. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ "Takehiko Kariya awarded humanities and social sciences book prize". Department of Sociology, University of Oxford. Retrieved 15 August 2021.