Tanizaki Prize
The Tanizaki Prize, named in honor of the Japanese novelist Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, is one of Japan's most sought-after literary awards. It was established in 1965 by the publishing company Chūō Kōronsha Inc. to commemorate its 80th anniversary as a publisher. It is awarded annually to a full-length representative work of fiction or drama of the highest literary merit by a professional writer. The winner receives a commemorative plaque and a cash prize of 1 million yen.
Winners
Award sponsor Chuokoron-Shinsha maintains an official list of current and past winning works.- 1965 Kojima Nobuo for Embracing Family
- 1966 Endō Shūsaku for Silence
- 1967 Kenzaburō Ōe for The Silent Cry
- 1967 Abe Kobo for Friends
- 1968
- 1969 Enchi Fumiko for Shu wo ubau mono; Kizu aru tsubasa; Niji to shura
- 1970 Yutaka Haniya for Black Horse In The Midst Of Darkness
- 1970 Yoshiyuki Junnosuke for The Dark Room
- 1971 Noma Hiroshi for Seinen no wa
- 1972 Maruya Saiichi for A Singular Rebellion
- 1973 Kaga Otohiko for Kaerazaru natsu
- 1974 Usui Yoshimi for Azumino
- 1975 Minakami Tsutomu for Ikkyū
- 1976 Fujieda Shizuo for Denshin ugaku
- 1977 Shimao Toshio for Hi no utsuroi
- 1978 Nakamura Shin'ichirō for Summer
- 1979 Tanaka Komimasa for Poroporo
- 1980 Kono Taeko for Ichinen no banka
- 1981 Fukazawa Shichiro for Michinoku no ningyotachi
- 1981 Goto Akio for Yoshinotayū
- 1982 Oba Minako for Katachi mo naku
- 1983 Furui Yoshikichi for Morning Glory
- 1984 Kuroi Senji for Life in the Cul-de-Sac
- 1984 Takai Yuichi for This Country's Sky
- 1985 Haruki Murakami for Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- 1986 Hino Keizo for Sakyu ga ugoku yō ni
- 1987 Tsutsui Yasutaka for Yumenokizaka bunkiten
- 1988
- 1989
- 1990 Hayashi Kyoko for Yasurakani ima wa nemuri tamae
- 1991 Inoue Hisashi for Shanghai Moon
- 1992 Setouchi Jakucho for Hana ni toe
- 1993 Ikezawa Natsuki for The Navidad Incident: The Downfall of Matías Guili
- 1994 Tsujii Takashi for Rainbow Cove
- 1995 Tsuji Kunio for Saigyō kaden
- 1996
- 1997 Hosaka Kazushi for Kisetsu no kioku
- 1997 Miki Taku for Roji
- 1998 Tsushima Yūko for Mountain of Fire: Account of a Wild Monkey
- 1999 Takagi Nobuko for Translucent Tree
- 2000 Tsujihara Noboru for Yudotei Maruki
- 2000 Murakami Ryū for A Symbiotic Parasite
- 2001 Hiromi Kawakami for The Briefcase/Strange Weather in Tokyo
- 2002:
- 2003: Tawada Yoko for Suspect On The Night Train
- 2004: Horie Toshiyuki for Yukinuma and Its Environs
- 2005: Machida Kō for Confession
- 2005: Amy Yamada for Wonderful Flavor
- 2006: Yōko Ogawa for Mina's March
- 2007: Seirai Yuichi for Bakushin
- 2008: Natsuo Kirino for Tokyo-jima
- 2009:
- 2010: Kazushige Abe for Pistils
- 2011: Mayumi Inaba for To the Peninsula
- 2012: Genichiro Takahashi for Goodbye, Christopher Robin
- 2013: Mieko Kawakami for Dreams of Love
- 2014: Hikaru Okuizumi for The Autobiography of Tokyo
- 2015: Kaori Ekuni for Geckos, Frogs, and Butterflies
- 2016: Akiko Itoyama for Hakujyō
- 2016: Yū Nagashima for San no Tonari wa Gogōshitsu
- 2017: Hisaki Matsuura for honour and trance
- 2018: Tomoyuki Hoshino for
- 2019: Kiyoko Murata for
- 2020: Kenichiro Isozaki for Nihon Momai Zenshi
- 2021: Kanehara Hitomi for Unsocial Distance
- 2022: Banana Yoshimoto for Miton to fubin
- 2023: Kikuko Tsumura for Suishagoya no Nene
- 2024: Tomoka Shibasaki for Tsuzuki to hajimari
- 2025: Kumi Kimura for ''Kuma wa doko ni iru no''