Noboru Tsujihara Explained

is a prize-winning Japanese novelist.

Early life

Tsujihara was born in 1945.^[1]

Prizes and honours

• 1990 Akutagawa Prize for Mura no namae (村の名前, A Village's Name)^[1]
• 1999 Yomiuri Prize for Tobe kirin (Fly, Kirin!)^[2]
• 2000 Tanizaki Prize for Yudotei Enboku (遊動亭円木)
• 2005 Kawabata Yasunari Prize for Kareha no naka no aoi honoo (枯葉の中の青い炎, Blue Flames Among the Dry Leaves)^[1]
• 2012 Medal with Purple Ribbon^[3]
• 2022 Person of Cultural Merit^[4]
• 2024 Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd Class, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon^[5]

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.

External links

• J'Lit | Authors : Noboru Tsujihara | Books from Japan

Notes and References

1. News: Hometown memories: Award-winning author Noboru Tsujihara on his life in rural Wakayama - The Mainichi Daily News. 29 May 2010. Mainichi Shimbun. 4 January 2011.
2. Web site: 読売文学賞. ja. Yomiuri Prize for Literature. Yomiuri Shimbun. September 26, 2018.
3. Web site: 父、断章. October 25, 2022. The Japan Foundation.
4. Web site: 松本白鸚氏ら6人に文化勲章 功労者に松任谷由実氏ら. October 25, 2022. The Nikkei.
5. Web site: 芥川賞作家の辻原さん旭日中綬章. April 29, 2024. Saga Shimbun.