The Tanizaki Prize (谷崎潤一郎賞 ''Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Shō''), named in honor of the Japanese novelist

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, is one of

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'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.

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Chuokoron-Shinsha is a Japanese publisher. It was established in 1886, under the name . In 1999, it was acquired by The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, and its name was subsequently changed to Chūōkōron-shinsha. Profile The company publishes a wide variety of mater ...

maintains an official list of current and past winning works. *1965 Kojima Nobuo for ''Embracing Family'' (''Hōyō kazoku'', 抱擁家族) *1966

Endō Shūsaku Endō, Endo, Endoh or Endou (written: , literally 'far-off wisteria' and short for ' ''Fuji''wara in ''En''shu') is the 38th most common Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: * , Japanese actress * Akari Endo (born 1989), Domin ...

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Silence Silence is the absence of ambient audible sound, the emission of sounds of such low intensity that they do not draw attention to themselves, or the state of having ceased to produce sounds; this latter sense can be extended to apply to the ce ...

'' (''Chinmoku'', 沈黙) *1967

Kenzaburō Ōe is a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His novels, short stories and essays, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issues, i ...

for '' The Silent Cry'' (''Manen gannen no futtoboru'', 万延元年のフットボール) *1967 Abe Kobo for ''Friends'' (''Tomodachi'', 友達) *1968 (no prize awarded) *1969 Enchi Fumiko for ''Shu wo ubau mono''; ''Kizu aru tsubasa''; ''Niji to shura'' (朱を奪うもの/傷ある翼/虹と修羅) *1970

Yutaka Haniya was a noted Japanese writer and critic. Biography Haniya was born in Taiwan, then a Japanese colony, to a samurai family named Hannya after the ''Hannya Shingyo'' ( Heart Sutra). He had a sickly childhood and suffered from tuberculosis in his ...

for ''Black Horse In The Midst Of Darkness'' (''Yami no naka no kuroi uma'', 闇のなかの黒い馬) *1970 Yoshiyuki Junnosuke for ''The Dark Room'' (''Anshitsu'', 暗室) *1971

Noma Hiroshi was a Japanese poet, novelist and essayist. According to literary scholar Doug Slaymaker, Noma is widely credited with having discovered or invented the style of writing called by the term "postwar literature" (''sengo bungaku'') in Japan. Ear ...

for ''Seinen no wa'' (青年の環) *1972

Maruya Saiichi was a Japanese author and literary critic. Biography Maruya, whose real name was Saiichi Nemura, was born in Tsuruoka city, Yamagata Prefecture on August 27, 1925. His father was a doctor, and apparently wealthy enough to have a big personal li ...

for ''A Singular Rebellion'' (''Tatta hitori no hanran'', たった一人の反乱) *1973 Kaga Otohiko for ''Kaerazaru natsu'' (帰らざる夏) *1974 Usui Yoshimi for ''Azumino'' (安曇野) *1975 Minakami Tsutomu for ''Ikkyū'' (一休) *1976 Fujieda Shizuo for ''Denshin ugaku'' (田紳有楽) *1977 Shimao Toshio for ''Hi no utsuroi'' (日の移ろい) *1978 Nakamura Shin'ichirō for ''Summer'' (''Natsu'', 夏) *1979 Tanaka Komimasa for ''Poroporo'' (ポロポロ) *1980 Kono Taeko for ''Ichinen no banka'' (一年の牧歌) *1981 Fukazawa Shichiro for ''Michinoku no ningyotachi'' (みちのくの人形たち) *1981 Goto Akio for ''Yoshinodayu'' (吉野大夫) *1982 Oba Minako for ''Katachi mo naku'' (寂兮寥兮) *1983 Furui Yoshikichi for ''Morning Glory'' (''Asagao'', 槿) *1984 Kuroi Senji for ''Life in the Cul-de-Sac'' (''Gunsei, 群棲) *1984 Takai Yuichi for ''This Country's Sky'' (''Kono kuni no sora'', この国の空) *1985

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 ...

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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is a 1985 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. It was awarded the Tanizaki Prize in 1985. The English translation by Alfred Birnbaum was released in 1991. A strange and dreamlike novel, its chapters alternate between two narratives—"Hard ...

'' (''Sekai no owari to Hādoboirudo Wandārando'', 世界の終わりとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド) *1986 Hino Keizo for ''Sakyu ga ugoku yō ni'' (砂丘が動くように) *1987 Tsutsui Yasutaka for '' Yumenokizaka bunkiten'' (夢の木坂分岐点) *1988 (no prize awarded) *1989 (no prize awarded) *1990 Hayashi Kyoko for ''Yasurakani ima wa nemuri tamae'' (やすらかに今はねむり給え) *1991 Inoue Hisashi for ''Shanghai Moon'' (''Shanhai Mūn'', シャンハイムーン) *1992 Setouchi Jakucho for ''Hana ni toe'' (花に問え) *1993

Ikezawa Natsuki is a Japanese poet, novelist, essayist and translator. He draws upon the relationship between civilization and nature in his writing, among other themes. Ikezawa translates a wide variety of writing, from contemporary Greek poetry to modern novel ...

for '' The Navidad Incident: The Downfall of Matías Guili'' (''Mashiasu giri no shikkyaku'', マシアス・ギリの失脚) *1994 Tsujii Takashi for ''Rainbow Cove'' (''Niji no misaki'', 虹の岬) *1995

Tsuji Kunio was a Japanese author, novelist, and scholar of French literature. Tsuji was born in Tokyo, attended Matsumoto High School with Kita Morio, and studied French literature at the University of Tokyo. After graduation, he became an instructor at ...

for ''Saigyō kaden'' (西行花伝) *1996 (no prize awarded) *1997

Hosaka Kazushi is a Japanese writer. He has won the Noma Literary Prize#Noma Literary New Face Prize (1979-present), Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Akutagawa Prize, and the Tanizaki Prize. Biography Hosaka was born in Yamanashi prefecture and received his u ...

for ''Kisetsu no kioku'' (季節の記憶) *1997 Miki Taku for ''Roji'' (路地) *1998 Tsushima Yūko for ''Mountain of Fire: Account of a Wild Monkey'' (''Hi no yama - yamazaruki'', 火の山―山猿記) *1999 Takagi Nobuko for ''Translucent Tree'' (''Tokō no ki'', (透光の樹) *2000 Tsujihara Noboru for ''Yudotei Maruki'' (遊動亭円木) *2000 Murakami Ryū for ''A Symbiotic Parasite'' (''Kyoseichu'', 共生虫) *2001

Hiromi Kawakami is a Japanese writer known for her off-beat fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. She has won numerous Japanese literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Yomiuri Prize, and the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature ...

for ''The Briefcase'' aka ''Strange Weather in Tokyo'' (''Sensei no kaban'', センセイの鞄) *2002: (no prize awarded) *2003: Tawada Yoko for ''Suspect On The Night Train'' (''Yōgisha no yakōressha'', 容疑者の夜行列車) *2004: Horie Toshiyuki for ''Yukinuma and Its Environs'' (''Yukinuma to sono shūhen'', 雪沼とその周辺) *2005: Machida Kō for ''Confession'' (''Kokuhaku'', 告白) *2005:

Amy Yamada born February 8, 1959, is a popular but controversial contemporary Japanese writer who is most famous for her stories that address issues of sexuality, racism, and interracial love and marriage. Her debut and subsequent popular success in the ...

for ''Wonderful Flavor'' (''Fūmizekka'', 風味絶佳) *2006:

Yōko Ogawa is a Japanese writer. Her work has won every major Japanese literary award, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Prize. Internationally, she has been the recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and the American Book Award. '' The Memory ...

for ''Meena's March'' (''Mīna no Kōshin'', ミーナの行進) *2007: Seirai Yuichi for ''Bakushin'' (爆心) *2008:

Natsuo Kirino (born October 7, 1951, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture) is the pen name of Mariko Hashioka, a Japanese novelist and a leading figure in the recent boom of female writers of Japanese detective fiction. Biography Kirino is the middle child of th ...

for ''Tokyo-jima'' (東京島) *2009: (no prize awarded) *2010:

Kazushige Abe is a contemporary Japanese writer. Works * ''Amerika no Yoru'' (アメリカの夜 ''American Night''). 1994. Kodansha. (likely reference to film technique “day for night”, known in French as “la nuit américaine”) Day for Night (film) ...

for ''Pistils'' (Pisutoruzu, ピストルズ) *2011:

Mayumi Inaba was a Japanese writer and poet. She won the Tanizaki Prize in 2011 for her memoir ''To the Peninsula'' (半島へ). Her short story was translated into English by Lawrence Rogers for the collection '' Tokyo Stories: A Literary Stroll''. Biogr ...

for ''To the Peninsula'' (半島へ) *2012:

Genichiro Takahashi is a Japanese novelist. Life and career Takahashi was born in Onomichi, Hiroshima prefecture and attended the Economics Department of Yokohama National University without graduating. As a radical student, he was arrested and spent half a year i ...

for ''Goodbye, Christopher Robin'' (さよならクリストファー・ロビン) *2013:

Mieko Kawakami is the author of the internationally best-selling novel, '' Breasts and Eggs'', a ''New York Times'' Notable Book of the Year and one of ''TIME'' Best 10 Books of 2020. Born in Osaka on August 29, 1976, Kawakami made her literary debut as a po ...

for ''Dreams of Love'' (''Ai no Yume to ka'', 愛の夢とか) *2014:

Hikaru Okuizumi , born 6 February 1956, is a Japanese novelist. His real name is Yasuhiro Okuizumi. Biography Okuizumi was born in Mikawa, Yamagata Prefecture, and attended high school in Saitama Prefecture, before studying Humanities at ICU in Tokyo. He ...

for ''The Autobiography of Tokyo'' (''Tōkyō jijoden'', 東京自叙伝) *2015:

Kaori Ekuni Kaori Ekuni (江國香織 ''Ekuni Kaori'', born 21 March 1964) is a Japanese author. She was born in Setagaya, Tokyo. Her father is Japanese haiku poet and essayist, Shigeru Ekuni. Works In Japan, she was dubbed the female Murakami. Her numero ...

for ''Geckos, Frogs, and Butterflies'' (Yamori Kaeru Shijimichō, ヤモリ、カエル、シジミチョウ) *2016:

Akiko Itoyama is a Japanese novelist. She has won the Akutagawa Prize, the Kawabata Yasunari Prize, and the Tanizaki Prize, and her work has been adapted for film. Biography After graduation from Shinjuku High School and Waseda University, she worked as a s ...

for ''Hakujyō'' (薄情) *2016: Yū Nagashima for ''San no Tonari wa Gogōshitsu'' (三の隣は五号室) *2017:

Hisaki Matsuura is a noted Japanese professor, poet, and novelist. Life Matsuura was born in Tokyo. In 1981 he obtained his Ph.D. in French literature from the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, and 1982 became an assistant professor in the French Dep ...

for ''honour and trance'' (Meiyo to Kōkotsu, 名誉と恍惚) *2018: Tomoyuki Hoshino for *2019:

Kiyoko Murata is a Japanese writer. She has won the Akutagawa Prize, the Noma Literary Prize, and the Yomiuri Prize, among other literary prizes. The Government of Japan has awarded her the Medal with Purple Ribbon and Order of the Rising Sun, and she has be ...

for *2020: Kenichiro Isozaki for ''Nihon Momai Zenshi'' (日本蒙昧前史) *2021: Kanehara Hitomi for ''Unsocial Distance'' (Ansōsharudisutansu, アンソーシャルディスタンス) *2022:

Banana Yoshimoto is the pen name of Japanese writer . From 2002 to 2015, she wrote her name in hiragana (). Biography Yoshimoto was born in Tokyo on July 24, 1964, and grew up in a liberal family. Her father is the poet and critic Takaaki Yoshimoto, and her sist ...

for ''Miton to fubin'' (ミトンとふびん)

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