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Yomiuri Prize

The Yomiuri Prize for Literature is a literary award in Japan. The prize was founded in 1949 by the Yomiuri Shimbun 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, awards were granted in four categories: novels and plays, poetry, literary criticism, and scholarly studies. In 1950, novels and plays were split to form a total of five categories. This was further reorganized in 1966 to form six categories: novels, plays, essays and travel journals, criticism and biography, poetry, and academic studies and translation. ==Award winners==
Award winners
The Yomiuri Shimbun maintains an official list of current and past prize recipients. Fiction } || Aya Kōda || Kuroi suso Drama } Poetry and haiku } Essay and Travelogue Criticism and biography Scholarship and translation ==See also==
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