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Gunzo Prize For New Writers
The is an annual literary prize awarded by Japanese literary magazine ''Gunzo'', published by Kodansha is a Japanese privately-held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha is the largest Japanese publishing company, and it produces the manga magazines ''Nakayoshi'', '' Afternoon'', '' Evening'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' .... It was established in 1958 with two categories, one for novels and one for commentary. According to submission rules, novels submitted must be between 250 and 500 pages, while commentary must be no more than 100 pages (raised from 50 pages in 2003). The winning writer receives a prize of 500,000 yen, with the winning work being published in the June edition of ''Gunzo''. List of winners Novels Numbers 1 through 10 Numbers 11 through 20 Numbers 21 through 30 Numbers 31 through 40 Numbers 41 through 50 {{Japanese literary awards Japanese literary awards Awards established in 1958 1958 establishments in Jap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyōko Hayashi
was a Japanese writer associated with the Atomic Bomb Literature genre. Biography Hayashi was born in Nagasaki and spent the years from 1931 to 1945 with her family in Shanghai. She returned to Nagasaki in 1945 and enrolled in Nagasaki Girls' High School, where she was mobilized in the Mitsubishi Munitions Factory. She was working at the factory when the atomic bomb destroyed Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Hayashi was seriously ill for two months, and suffered afterwards from fragile health. She later studied nursing in a special course the Welfare Faculty for Women attached to the Nagasaki Medical School, but left before graduation. She started to write in 1962. In 1967, her story ''Procession on a Cloudy Day'' (''Kumoribi no kōshin'') was published in ''Bungei Shuto''. She first drew wide attention in 1975 with an autobiographical story about the bombing, ''Ritual of Death'' (''Matsuri no ba''), which received that year's Akutagawa Prize. ''Two Grave Markers'' (''Futari No Bohyō' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chihiro Arai
Chihiro (ちひろ, チヒロ,千尋) is a female and male Japanese given name. Possible writings Chihiro can be written using various kanji, which can alter the name's meaning: *千尋, "thousand fathoms" *千博, "thousand gains" *千裕, "thousand, abundance" *千紘, "thousand, large or huge" The name can also be rendered in hiragana and katakana as ちひろ and チヒロ respectively. People with the name *Chihiro Fujioka (born 1959, 藤岡千尋), Japanese director *, Japanese professional wrestler *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese swimmer *Chihiro Iwasaki (born 1918, いわさき ちひろ 岩崎 知弘), Japanese artist and illustrator *Chihiro Kameyama (born 1956, 亀山千尋), a Japanese businessman *Chihiro Kaneko (born 1983, 金子千尋), Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher for the Orix Buffaloes *Chihiro Kato (volleyball) (born 1988, 加藤千尋), Japanese volleyball player * Chihiro Kawakami, a Japanese voice actress * Chihiro Kondo, (近藤千尋), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruhiko Yoshimeki
Haruhiko is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *Haruhiko Arai (born 1947), Japanese screenwriter, publisher/editor of ''Eiga Geijutsu'' film magazine *Haruhiko Ash, founder of ''Eve of Destiny'', a Japanese industrial rock band founded in 1999 * Haruhiko Higashikuni (1887–1990), the 43rd Prime Minister of Japan for 54 days in 1945 *Haruhiko Jō, Japanese actor, theatre director and voice actor * Haruhiko Kazama or List of Please Save My Earth characters "Please Save My Earth *Haruhiko Kindaichi (1913–2004), Japanese linguist and a scholar of Japanese linguistics Kokugogaku * Haruhiko Kon, Japanese field hockey player who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics *Haruhiko Kuroda (born 1944), has been the president of the Asian Development Bank since February 2005 *Haruhiko Mikimoto (born 1959), Japanese anime character designer, illustrator and manga artist *Haruhiko Nishi (1893–1986), Japanese diplomat *Haruhiko Okumura, Japanese engineer *Haruh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fumiko Hanagi
is a feminine Japanese given name. Possible writings *文子 (sentence, child) - also can be read as "Ayako" *富美子 or 冨美子 (wealthy beautiful child) *芙美子 (hibiscus, beautiful child) *史子 (historical child) People with the name *Fumiko Aoki, a cross-country skier (富美子) *Fumiko Enchi, a writer active in the Shōwa period (文子) *, Japanese writer and poet *, Japanese politician *, Japanese artist *, Japanese long jumper *Fumiko Kaneko, a Japanese anarchist and nihilist (文子) *Fumiko Kometani, an author and artist (ふみ子) *Fumiko Okuno, a Japanese synchronized swimmer (文子) *Fumiko Orikasa (born 1974), a singer and voice actress (富美子) *, Japanese diplomat *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese-German classical pianist *Fumiko Yonezawa Fumiko Yonezawa (米沢 富美子; 1938 – 17 January 2019) was a Japanese theoretical physicist. She researched semi-conductors and liquid metals. Yonezawa obtained BSc, MSc and Ph. D from Kyoto University, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naoyuki Ii
is a noted Japanese author and professor of creative writing at Tokai University's Shonan campus. Biography A native of Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Ii graduated in 1978 from Keio University with a degree in history (archaeology and ethnology). His first novel, ''Kusa no kanmuri'' (The Grass Radical), was published in 1983, and received the Gunzo Prize for New Writers. Subsequent prizes include: * 1989 Noma Literary Prize for New Writers, for ''Sashite juyo denai ichinichi'' (A Day of Little Importance) * 1994 Hirabayashi Taiko Prize, for ''Shinka no tokei'' (Evolution Clock) * 2000 Yomiuri Literary Prize, for ''Nigotta gekiryu ni kakaru hashi'' (Bridge Over a Muddy Torrent) English translations * ''My visit to the Yubijima Isles'', translated by M. Jacob and edited by Harry Aveling, Bundoora, Vic. : La Trobe University, School of Asian Studies, 1996. 18 pages. * ''Aoneko kazoku tentenroku'' (The Shadow of a Blue Cat), translated by Wayne P. Lammers. Champaign, IL and London: Dalkey Arch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoriko Shōno
, born 16 March 1956, is a Japanese writer who describes her writing as 'avant-pop'. Biography Yoriko Shono (real name Yoriko Ishikawa) was born in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, grew up in Ise and studied in the Law Department at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. She started writing while she was at university, and made her debut with the story "Gokuraku" in 1981, but was not published again until her 1991 collection ''Nani mo Shitenai'', which won the Noma Literary Prize for New Writers. She really began to draw attention in 1994 when her story "Ni Hyaku Kaiki" won the Yukio Mishima Prize, and another story, "Time Slip Kombinat" won the Akutagawa Prize The is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. Because of its prestige and the considerable attention the winner receives from the media, it is, along with the Naoki Prize, one of Japan's most sought after literary prizes. History The ... in the same year. For winning these three prizes she became known as the 'new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hear The Wind Sing
is the first novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. It first appeared in the June 1979 issue of ''Gunzo'', and in book form the next month. The novel was adapted by Japanese director Kazuki Ōmori in a 1981 film distributed by Art Theatre Guild. An English translation by Alfred Birnbaum appeared in 1987. It is the first book in the so-called "Trilogy of the Rat" series of independent novels, followed by ''Pinball, 1973'' (1980) and ''A Wild Sheep Chase'' (1982), before the later epilogue '' Dance Dance Dance'' (1988). All four books in the series have been translated into English, but ''Hear the Wind Sing'' and ''Pinball, 1973'' (which are realist novels slightly differing from the author's later style) were never widely distributed in the English-speaking world, having only been published in Japan by Kodansha under their Kodansha English Library branding (for English Foreign Language learners), and both only as A6-sized pocketbooks. This was due to Murakami viewing the two n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruki Murakami
is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been bestsellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzou Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, and the Jerusalem Prize. Growing up in Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel ''Hear the Wind Sing'' (1979) after working as the owner of a small jazz bar for seven years. His notable works include the novels '' Norwegian Wood'' (1987), ''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'' (1994–95), ''Kafka on the Shore'' (2002), and '' 1Q84'' (2009–10), with ''1Q84'' ranked as the best work of Japan's Heisei era (1989–2019) by the national newspaper ''Asahi Shimbun'' survey of literary experts. His work spans genres including science fiction, fantasy, and crim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
