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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.

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  {
    "code": "NBL-2025",
    "slug": "nobel-literature-2025",
    "name": "Nobel Prize in Literature 2025",
    "awardType": "Nobel Prize in Literature",
    "year": 2025,
    "winner": "László Krasznahorkai",
    "nationality": "Hungary",
    "winningWork": "Complete Oeuvre",
    "citation": "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art",
    "description": "The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai."
  },
  {
    "code": "NBL-2024",
    "slug": "nobel-literature-2024",
    "name": "Nobel Prize in Literature 2024",
    "awardType": "Nobel Prize in Literature",
    "year": 2024,
    "winner": "Han Kang",
    "nationality": "South Korea",
    "winningWork": "Complete Oeuvre",
    "citation": "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life",
    "description": "The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to South Korean author Han Kang."
  },
  {
    "code": "NBL-2023",
    "slug": "nobel-literature-2023",
    "name": "Nobel Prize in Literature 2023",
    "awardType": "Nobel Prize in Literature",
    "year": 2023,
    "winner": "Jon Fosse",
    "nationality": "Norway",
    "winningWork": "Complete Oeuvre",
    "citation": "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable",
    "description": "The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse."
  },
  {
    "code": "NBL-2022",
    "slug": "nobel-literature-2022",
    "name": "Nobel Prize in Literature 2022",
    "awardType": "Nobel Prize in Literature",
    "year": 2022,
    "winner": "Annie Ernaux",
    "nationality": "France",
    "winningWork": "Complete Oeuvre",
    "citation": "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory",
    "description": "The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to French author Annie Ernaux."
  },
  {
    "code": "NBL-2021",
    "slug": "nobel-literature-2021",
    "name": "Nobel Prize in Literature 2021",
    "awardType": "Nobel Prize in Literature",
    "year": 2021,
    "winner": "Abdulrazak Gurnah",
    "nationality": "Tanzania/UK",
    "winningWork": "Complete Oeuvre",
    "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",
    "description": "The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Tanzanian-born British author Abdulrazak Gurnah."
  },
  {
    "code": "NBL-2020",
    "slug": "nobel-literature-2020",
    "name": "Nobel Prize in Literature 2020",
    "awardType": "Nobel Prize in Literature",
    "year": 2020,
    "winner": "Louise Glück",
    "nationality": "USA",
    "winningWork": "Complete Oeuvre",
    "citation": "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal",
    "description": "The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to American poet Louise Glück."
  },
  {
    "code": "AKT-173",
    "slug": "akutagawa-prize-173",
    "name": "Akutagawa Prize 173rd",
    "awardType": "Akutagawa Prize",
    "year": 2025,
    "session": "上半期",
    "winner": "No winner",
    "nationality": "-",
    "winningWork": "-",
    "citation": "No winner was selected",
    "description": "The 173rd Akutagawa Prize (first half of 2025) had no winner."
  },
  {
    "code": "AKT-170",
    "slug": "akutagawa-prize-170",
    "name": "Akutagawa Prize 170th",
    "awardType": "Akutagawa Prize",
    "year": 2024,
    "session": "上半期",
    "winner": "Rie Kudan",
    "nationality": "Japan",
    "winningWork": "Tokyo-to Dojo Tower",
    "citation": "A work depicting the relationship between AI and humans",
    "description": "The 170th Akutagawa Prize was awarded to Rie Kudan's 'Tokyo-to Dojo Tower'."
  },
  {
    "code": "NAO-174",
    "slug": "naoki-prize-174",
    "name": "Naoki Prize 174th",
    "awardType": "Naoki Prize",
    "year": 2026,
    "session": "上半期",
    "winner": "Teru Shimazu",
    "nationality": "Japan",
    "winningWork": "Cafe no Kaerimichi",
    "citation": "An outstanding work of popular literature",
    "description": "The 174th Naoki Prize was awarded to Teru Shimazu's 'Cafe no Kaerimichi'."
  },
  {
    "code": "NAO-172",
    "slug": "naoki-prize-172",
    "name": "Naoki Prize 172nd",
    "awardType": "Naoki Prize",
    "year": 2025,
    "session": "上半期",
    "winner": "Arata Iyo",
    "nationality": "Japan",
    "winningWork": "Ai wo Tsugu Umi",
    "citation": "An outstanding work of popular literature",
    "description": "The 172nd Naoki Prize was awarded to Arata Iyo's 'Ai wo Tsugu Umi'."
  },
  {
    "code": "NAO-171",
    "slug": "naoki-prize-171",
    "name": "Naoki Prize 171st",
    "awardType": "Naoki Prize",
    "year": 2024,
    "session": "下半期",
    "winner": "Michi Iho",
    "nationality": "Japan",
    "winningWork": "Tsumidemic",
    "citation": "An outstanding work of popular literature",
    "description": "The 171st Naoki Prize was awarded to Michi Iho's 'Tsumidemic'."
  }
]