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Literary Award Winners - INI

This is a systematically organized collection of winners and winning works from representative literary awards around the world and Japan, including the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Akutagawa Prize, and the Naoki Prize. From pure literature to popular fiction, you can review the achievements of writers who represent their eras. It helps understand important trends in the literary world, including the selection criteria and historical background of each award.

literary awards Nobel Prize in Literature Akutagawa Prize Naoki Prize winners authors literature

[item.nobel-literature-2025]
code=NBL-2025
slug=nobel-literature-2025
name=Nobel Prize in Literature 2025
description=The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai.
awardType=Nobel Prize in Literature
citation=for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art
nationality=Hungary
winner=László Krasznahorkai
winningWork=Complete Oeuvre
year=2025
session=

[item.nobel-literature-2024]
code=NBL-2024
slug=nobel-literature-2024
name=Nobel Prize in Literature 2024
description=The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to South Korean author Han Kang.
awardType=Nobel Prize in Literature
citation=for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life
nationality=South Korea
winner=Han Kang
winningWork=Complete Oeuvre
year=2024
session=

[item.nobel-literature-2023]
code=NBL-2023
slug=nobel-literature-2023
name=Nobel Prize in Literature 2023
description=The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse.
awardType=Nobel Prize in Literature
citation=for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable
nationality=Norway
winner=Jon Fosse
winningWork=Complete Oeuvre
year=2023
session=

[item.nobel-literature-2022]
code=NBL-2022
slug=nobel-literature-2022
name=Nobel Prize in Literature 2022
description=The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to French author Annie Ernaux.
awardType=Nobel Prize in Literature
citation=for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory
nationality=France
winner=Annie Ernaux
winningWork=Complete Oeuvre
year=2022
session=

[item.nobel-literature-2021]
code=NBL-2021
slug=nobel-literature-2021
name=Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
description=The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Tanzanian-born British author Abdulrazak Gurnah.
awardType=Nobel Prize in Literature
citation=for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents
nationality=Tanzania/UK
winner=Abdulrazak Gurnah
winningWork=Complete Oeuvre
year=2021
session=

[item.nobel-literature-2020]
code=NBL-2020
slug=nobel-literature-2020
name=Nobel Prize in Literature 2020
description=The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to American poet Louise Glück.
awardType=Nobel Prize in Literature
citation=for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal
nationality=USA
winner=Louise Glück
winningWork=Complete Oeuvre
year=2020
session=

[item.akutagawa-prize-173]
code=AKT-173
slug=akutagawa-prize-173
name=Akutagawa Prize 173rd
description=The 173rd Akutagawa Prize (first half of 2025) had no winner.
awardType=Akutagawa Prize
citation=No winner was selected
nationality=-
winner=No winner
winningWork=-
year=2025
session=上半期

[item.akutagawa-prize-170]
code=AKT-170
slug=akutagawa-prize-170
name=Akutagawa Prize 170th
description=The 170th Akutagawa Prize was awarded to Rie Kudan's 'Tokyo-to Dojo Tower'.
awardType=Akutagawa Prize
citation=A work depicting the relationship between AI and humans
nationality=Japan
winner=Rie Kudan
winningWork=Tokyo-to Dojo Tower
year=2024
session=上半期

[item.naoki-prize-174]
code=NAO-174
slug=naoki-prize-174
name=Naoki Prize 174th
description=The 174th Naoki Prize was awarded to Teru Shimazu's 'Cafe no Kaerimichi'.
awardType=Naoki Prize
citation=An outstanding work of popular literature
nationality=Japan
winner=Teru Shimazu
winningWork=Cafe no Kaerimichi
year=2026
session=上半期

[item.naoki-prize-172]
code=NAO-172
slug=naoki-prize-172
name=Naoki Prize 172nd
description=The 172nd Naoki Prize was awarded to Arata Iyo's 'Ai wo Tsugu Umi'.
awardType=Naoki Prize
citation=An outstanding work of popular literature
nationality=Japan
winner=Arata Iyo
winningWork=Ai wo Tsugu Umi
year=2025
session=上半期

[item.naoki-prize-171]
code=NAO-171
slug=naoki-prize-171
name=Naoki Prize 171st
description=The 171st Naoki Prize was awarded to Michi Iho's 'Tsumidemic'.
awardType=Naoki Prize
citation=An outstanding work of popular literature
nationality=Japan
winner=Michi Iho
winningWork=Tsumidemic
year=2024
session=下半期