is a prize-winning Japanese
novelist
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.
Early life
Tsujihara was born in 1945.
Prizes and honours
* 1990
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 ...
for ''Mura no namae'' (村の名前, A Village's Name)
* 1999
Yomiuri Prize
The is a literary award in Japan. The prize was founded in 1949 by the Yomiuri Shinbun Company to help form a "strong cultural nation". The winner is awarded two million Japanese yen and an inkstone.
Award categories
For the first two years, a ...
for ''Tobe kirin'' (Fly, Kirin!)
* 2000
Tanizaki Prize
The Tanizaki Prize (谷崎潤一郎賞 ''Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Shō''), 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 K ...
for ''Yudotei Enboku'' (遊動亭円木)
* 2005
Kawabata Yasunari Prize
was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal an ...
for ''Kareha no naka no aoi honoo'' (枯葉の中の青い炎, Blue Flames Among the Dry Leaves)
* 2012
Medal with Purple Ribbon
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* 2022
Person of Cultural Merit
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Selected works
* ''Manon no nikutai'' (マノンの肉体), Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 1990.
* ''Mura no namae'' (村の名前), Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 1990. .
* ''Yuri no kokoro'' (百合の心), Tōkyō : Kōdansha, 1990.
* ''Shinrinsho'' (森林書), Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 1994. .
* ''Kazoku shashin : tanpenshū'' (家族 写真 : 短編集), Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 1995. .
* ''Dare no mono demo nai kanashimi'' (だれのものでもない悲しみ), Tōkyō : Chūō Kōronsha, 1995.
* ''Sōgyōsha wa nanadaime : Jasuko kaichō, Okada Takuya no ikikata'' (創業者は七代目 : ジャスコ会長, 岡田卓也の生き方), Tōkyō : Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1995.
* ''Yūdō Teienboku'' (遊動亭円木), Bungei Shunjū, 1999.
* ''Hatsunetsu'' (初熱), Tōkyō : Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, 2001.
* ''Yakusoku yo'' (約束よ), Tōkyō : Shinchōsha, 2002.
* ''Jasumin'' (ジャスミン), Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 2004.
* ''Yūdōtei Enboku'' (遊動亭円木), Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 2004.
* ''Kareha no naka no aoi honoo'' (枯葉の中の青い炎), Tōkyō : Shinchōsha, 2005.
References
External links
J'Lit , Authors : Noboru Tsujihara , Books from Japan
20th-century Japanese novelists
Akutagawa Prize winners
Yomiuri Prize winners
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Persons of Cultural Merit
Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon
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