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Awards and Honors

Throughout Mishima's literary career, he won a plethora of awards for his writing pieces. Below is a list of notable awards won by Yukio Mishima.

  • Shincho Prize from Shinchosha Publishing, 1954, for The Sound of Waves

  • Kishida Prize for Drama from Shinchosha Publishing, 1955 for Shiroari no Su (白蟻の巣?, "Termites' nest")

  • Yomiuri Prize from Yomiuri Newspaper Co., for best novel, 1956, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

  • Shuukan Yomiuri Prize for Shingeki from Yomiuri Newspaper Co., 1958, for Bara to Kaizoku (薔薇と海賊?, "Rose and Pirate")

  • Yomiuri Prize from Yomiuri Newspaper Co., for best drama, 1961, Toka no Kiku (十日の菊?, "The chrysanthemum on the tenth", "The day after the fair")

  • One of six finalists for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1963.[18]

  • Mainichi Art Prize from Mainichi Shimbun, 1964, for Silk and Insight 

  • Art Festival Prize from Ministry of Education, 1965, for Madame de Sade

(Information from Wikipedia)

The Mishima Yukio Prize

The Mishima Yukio Prize is a Japanese Literary Award established in 1988, in honor of Yukio Mishima. 

Find out more about the prize here or here.

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