Noboru Tsujihara

Noboru Tsujihara is a prize-winning Japanese novelist.

Early life

Tsujihara was born in 1945.

Prizes and honours

1990 Akutagawa Prize for Mura no namae
1999 Yomiuri Prize for Tobe kirin
2000 Tanizaki Prize for Yudotei Enboku
2005 Kawabata Yasunari Prize for Kareha no naka no aoi honoo
2012 Medal with Purple Ribbon
2022 Person of Cultural Merit
2024 Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd Class, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon

Selected works

Manon no nikutai, Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 1990.Mura no namae, Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 1990..Yuri no kokoro, Tōkyō : Kōdansha, 1990.Shinrinsho, Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 1994..Kazoku shashin : tanpenshū, Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 1995..Dare no mono demo nai kanashimi, Tōkyō : Chūō Kōronsha, 1995.Sōgyōsha wa nanadaime : Jasuko kaichō, Okada Takuya no ikikata, Tōkyō : Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1995.Yūdō Teienboku, Bungei Shunjū, 1999.Hatsunetsu, Tōkyō : Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, 2001.Yakusoku yo, Tōkyō : Shinchōsha, 2002.Jasumin, Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 2004.Yūdōtei Enboku, Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 2004.Kareha no naka no aoi honoo, Tōkyō : Shinchōsha, 2005.