Noboru Tsujihara

is a prize-winning Japanese novelist.

Early life

Tsujihara was born in 1945.

Prizes and honours

• 1990 Akutagawa Prize for Mura no namae (村の名前, A Village's Name)
• 1999 Yomiuri Prize for Tobe kirin (Fly, Kirin!)
• 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)
• 2012 Medal with Purple Ribbon
• 2022 Person of Cultural Merit
• 2024 Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd Class, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon

Selected works

• Manon no nikutai (マノンの肉体), Tōkyō : Bungei ShunjÅ«, 1990.
• Mura no namae (村の名前), Tōkyō : Bungei ShunjÅ«, 1990. .
• Yuri no kokoro (百合の心), Tōkyō : Kōdansha, 1990.
• Shinrinsho (森林書), Tōkyō : Bungei ShunjÅ«, 1994. .
• Kazoku shashin : tanpenshÅ« (家族 写真 : 短編集), Tōkyō : Bungei ShunjÅ«, 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.
• YÅ«dō Teienboku (遊動亭円木), Bungei ShunjÅ«, 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 ShunjÅ«, 2004.
• YÅ«dōtei Enboku (遊動亭円木), Tōkyō : Bungei ShunjÅ«, 2004.
• Kareha no naka no aoi honoo (枯葉の中の青い炎), Tōkyō : Shinchōsha, 2005.

References

External links

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