Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize

The is a Japanese literary award established in 1988 in memory of author Shūgorō Yamamoto. It was created and continues to be sponsored by the Shinchosha Publishing company, which published Yamamoto's Complete Works. The prize is awarded annually to a new work of fiction considered to exemplify the art of storytelling, by a five-person panel consisting of fellow authors. Winners receive ¥1 million.

Unlike the Mishima Yukio Prize, which was established at the same time and focuses on literary fiction, the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize is more broad, encompassing a wide range of genre fiction that includes historical and period fiction, mysteries, fantasy, erotica, and more. Candidate works and prize winners for both prizes are typically announced in May each year and covered in national print media.Examples of announcements in national media:

Notable winners have included Banana Yoshimoto, whose winning novel Goodbye Tsugumi was later published in English, erotic and romance novelist Misumi Kubo, and crime fiction and thriller author Kanae Minato. Several prize winners have gone on to win the Naoki Prize, including Riku Onda, Miyuki Miyabe, Kaori Ekuni, and Honobu Yonezawa.

List of winners An official list of winning and nominated works is maintained by Shinchosha, the prize sponsor. Year Author Japanese Title English Title 1988 Taichi Yamada Strangers (tr. Wayne Lammers, 2003) 1989 Banana Yoshimoto TUGUMI Goodbye Tsugumi (tr. Michael Emmerich, 2002) 1990 Joh Sasaki 1991 Itsura Inami 1992 Yoichi Funado 1993 Miyuki Miyabe All She Was Worth (tr. Alfred Birnbaum, 1999) 1994 Teruhiko Kuze 1995 Hōsei Hahakigi 1996 Arata Tendō 1997 Yūichi Shinpo Setsuko Shinoda 1998 Yang Sok-il Blood and Bones 1999 Kiyoshi Shigematsu 2000 Shimako Iwai Too Scary 2001 Yuzaburo Otokawa The Five-Year Plum Tree Kaho Nakayama To the Depths of White Roses 2002 Shuichi Yoshida Parade Kaori Ekuni Not Safe or Suitable for Swimming 2003 Natsuhiko Kyogoku Peeping Koheiji 2004 Tatsuya Kumagai 2005 Ryōsuke Kakine You Have No Tomorrow Hiroshi Ogiwara Tomorrow’s Memory 2006 Haruaki Utsukibara Emperor Antoku beneath the Sea 2007 Tomihiko Morimi The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl Riku Onda The Incident in the Courtyard 2008 Kōtarō Isaka Remote Control (tr. Stephen Snyder, 2011) Bin Konno Decision: Cover-Up Investigation 2 2009 Kazufumi Shiraishi 2010 Shūsuke Michio Photophilous Flower Tokurō Nukui The Colour of Truth and Regret 2011 Misumi Kubo Feckless Me with Eyes to the Sky 2012 Maha Harada Painting of Paradise 2013 Fuyumi Ono Lingering Pollution 2014 Honobu Yonezawa 2015 Asako Yuzuki Hooked (tr. Polly Barton, 2026) 2016 Kanae Minato 2017 Takako Satō 2018 Satoshi Ogawa 2019 Kasumi Asakura 2020 Kazumasa Hayami 2021Kiwamu SatoTezcatlipoca (テスカトリポカ)2022Kōtarō SunaharaMayuzumi-ke no kyoōdai (黛家の兄弟)2023Sayako Nagai2024Yugo AosakiJirai Glico (地雷グリコ)2025Hotate ShinkawaOnna no kokkai (女の国会)

Nominees available in English translation 1991 - Mariko Koike, A Cappella, trans. Juliet W. Carpenter (Thames River Press, 2013) 2004 - Otsuichi, Zoo, trans. Terry Gallagher (Viz Media, 2009 / Shueisha English Edition, 2013)

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