Noma Literary Prize

Not to be confused with the Noma Literacy Prize

Noma Literary Prize
Awarded for	Literary award
Presented by	Noma Service Association
Country	Japan
First awarded	1941

The Noma Literary Prize (Noma Bungei Shō) was established in 1941 by the Noma Service Association (Noma Hōkō Kai) in accordance with the last wishes of Noma Seiji (1878-1938), founder and first president of the Kōdansha publishing company. The Noma Literary Prize has been awarded annually to an outstanding new work published in Japan between October and the following September. The Noma Prize includes a commemorative plaque and a cash award of 3 million yen.^[1] It is one in a series of Noma Prizes.

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Noma Literary Prize

• 1 1941 — Seika Mayama
• 2 1942 — No Award
• 3 1943 — Kōda Rohan
• 4 1944 — No Award
• 5 1946 — Mimei Ogawa
• 6 1953 — Fumio Niwa for Hebi to hato
• 7 1954 — Yasunari Kawabata for Yama no oto (The Sound of the Mountain)
• 8 1955 — No Award
• 9 1956 — Shigeru Tonomura for Ikada
• 10 1957 — Fumiko Enchi for Onnnazaka (The Waiting Years), and Chiyo Uno for Ohan
• 11 1958 — Hideo Kobayashi for Kindai kaiga
• 12 1959 — Saisei Murou for Kagerou no nikki ibun
• 13 1960 — Shotaro Yasuoka for Umibe no kokei, Tomie Ohara (for En to iu onna (A Woman called En).^[2]
• 14 1961 — Yasushi Inoue for Yodo dono no nikki
• 15 1962 — Kazuo Ozaki for Maboroshi no ki
• 16 1963 — Hirotsu Kazuo for Nengetsu no ashioto
• 17 1964 — Gishu Nakayama for Shoan, and Jun Takami for Shi no fuchi yori
• 18 1965 — Tatsuo Nagai for Ikko sono hoka
• 19 1966 — Nagai Tatsuo for Kuroi Gohan (Black Rice).
• 20 1967 — Mitsuo Nakamura for Nise no shozo, and Seiichi Funabashi for Sukina onnna no munakazari
• 21 1968 — Tetsutaro Kawakami for Yoshida Shoin
• 22 1969 — Shigeharu Nakano for Kootsuheitei
• 23 1970 — Ken'ichi Yoshida for Yoroppa no seikimatsu, and Jun Eto for Soseki to sono jidai
• 24 1971 — Junzo Shono for Eawase (Picture Cards).^[3]
• 25 1972 — Ineko Sata for Juei (The Shade of Trees).^[4]
• 26 1973 — Kenzaburō Ōe for The Flood invades my spirit (洪水はわが魂に及び, Kōzui wa waga tamashii ni oyobi^?)
• 27 1974 — Shōhei Ōoka for Nakahara Chuya
• 28 1975 — Ken Hirano for Samazama na seishun, and Kazuo Ozaki for Anoh hi kono hi
• 29 1976 — Taijun Takeda for Memai no suru sanpo, and Tetsuo Miura for Kenju to jyugo no tanpen
• 30 1977 — Kenzo Nakajima for Kaiso no bungaku
• 31 1978 — Junnosuke Yoshiyuki for Yugure made
• 32 1979 — Shizuo Fujieda for Kanashii dake
• 33 1980 — Shusaku Endo for Samurai
• 34 1981 — Kenkichi Yamamoto for Inochi to katachi
• 35 1982 — Nobuo Kojima for Wakareru riyu
• 36 1983 — Fumio Niwa for Rennyo
• 37 1984 — No Award
• 38 1985 — Toshio Shimao for Gyoraitei gakusei, and Saiichi Maruya for Chushingura towa nanika
• 39 1986 — Miyoji Ueda for SHIMAKI Akahiko, Minako Oba for Naku tori no (Birds, Crying).^[5]
• 40 1987 — Atsushi Mori for Ware yuku mono no gotoku
• 41 1988 — Shotaro Yasuoka for Boku no showashi (3 vols.)
• 42 1989 — Yasushi Inoue for Koshi
• 43 1990 — Gin'ichi Sakaki for Watashi no Chehov
• 44 1991 — Taeko Kono for Miira tori ryookitan (The Strange Tale of a "Mummy Hunter").^[6]
• 45 1992 — Hiroshi Sakagami for Denen fukei
• 46 1993 — Keizo Hino for Taifu no me
• 47 1994 — Hiroyuki Agawa for Shiga Naoya, and Kaisei Ri for Hyakunen no tabibito tachi
• 48 1995 — No Award
• 49 1996 — Shun Akiyama for Nobunaga
• 50 1997 — Hideo Takubo for Kodamashu, and Taeko Tomioka for Hiberuniato kiko
• 51 1998 — Yuko Tsushima for Hinoyama
• 52 1999 — Kiyooka Takuyuki for Maronie no hana ga itta
• 53 2000 — Kyoko Hayashi for Nagai zikan wo kaketa ningen no keiken
• 54 2001 — Jakucho Setouchi for Basho
• 55 2002 — Yuichi Takai for 時の潮
• 56 2003 — Hiroko Takenishi for Zoto no Uta
• 57 2004 — Takashi Tsujii for Chichi no Shozo
• 58 2005 — Ryū Murakami for Hanto wo Deyo
• 59 2006 — Senji Kuroi for 一日 夢の柵
• 60 2007 — Kazumi Saeki for Norge
• 61 2008 — Kō Machida for Yadoya Meguri

Noma Literary New Face Prize

• 07 1985 — Mizuko Masuda for Jiyū Jikan (Free Hours).^[7]
• 23 2001 — Sonoe Dougaki for Veracruz, Hiroko Shimizu for Shohosen
• 24 2002 — Mitsuharu Sagawa for Chijinda Ai, Su Wakai for Kaiba no Joso
• 25 2003 — Rio Shimamoto for Little By Little, Tomoyuki Hoshino for Fantasista
• 26 2004 — Ko Nakamura for Guru-Guru Mawaru Suberidai, Fuminori Nakamura for Shako
• 27 2005 — Jungo Aoki for 四十日と四十夜のメルヘン, Toshiko Hirata for Futarinori
• 28 2006 — Masaya Nakahara for Na mo Naki Koji tachi no Haka
• 29 2007 — Maki Kashimada for ピカルディーの三度, Kenta Nishimura for Ankyo no Yado
• 30 2008 — Kikuko Tsumura for Music Bless You!!

Noma Children's Literature Prize

• 39 2001 — Mitsuru Hanagata for Giri-Giri Triangle
• 41 2003 — Hiroshi Ito for Osaru no Mori
• 42 2004 — Nahoko Uehashi for Koteki no Kanata
• 46 2008 — Naoko Kudo for Nohara no Uta 5

Noma Children's Literature New Face Prize

This prize was last awarded in 1998.

• 09 1971 — Rie Yoshiyuki for Mahōtsukai no kushan neko (Sneezing Cat, a Magician).^[8]
• 33 1995 — Eto Mori for Uchu no Minashigo
• 34 1996 — Nahoko Uehashi for Seirei no Moribito

See also

• Noma Prize
• Noma Literacy Prize
• Noma Award for Publishing in Africa

Notes

1. ^ Japanese literature website: Literary awards
2. ^ Schierbeck, Sachiko Shibata et al. (1994). Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century: 104 Biographies, 1900-1993, p. 101.
3. ^ Shono bio.
4. ^ Schierbeck, p. 57.
5. ^ Schierbeck, p. 219.
6. ^ Schierbeck, p. 175.
7. ^ Schierbeck, p. 261.
8. ^ Schierbeck, p. 247.

References

• Schierbeck, Sachiko Shibata, Marlene R Edelstein. (1994). Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century: 104 Biographies, 1900-1993. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. 10-ISBN 8-772-89268-4; 13-ISBN 978-8-772-89268-9; OCLC 32348453