Sumito Yamashita

Japanese playwright and writer

  • Noma Literary Prize (2012)
  • Akutagawa Prize (2016)

Sumito Yamashita (Japanese: 山下澄人; born 1966) is a Japanese playwright and writer.

He was born in Kobe. He was awarded 156th Akutagawa Prize in 2016, for the novel Shinsekai (しんせかい "New World").[1]

References

  1. ^ Kikuchi, Daisuke (20 January 2017). "Sumito Yamashita claims 156th Akutagawa Prize". japantimes.co.jp. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
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List of Akutagawa Prize winners
1935–1950
  • 1935: Tatsuzō Ishikawa / None
  • 1936: Oda Takeo and Tsuruta Tomoya / Jun Ishikawa and Tomisawa Uio
  • 1937: Ozaki Kazuo / Ashihei Hino
  • 1938: Nakayama Gishū / Nakazato Tsuneko
  • 1939: Handa Yoshiyuki and Hase Ken / Samukawa Kotaro
  • 1940: None / Sakurada Tsunehisa
  • 1941: Tada Yukei / Shibaki Yoshiko
  • 1942: None / Kuramitsu Toshio
  • 1943: Ishizuka Kikuzo / Tonobe Kaoru
  • 1944: Yagi Yoshinori and Ono Juzo / Shimizu Motoyoshi
  • 1949: Kotani Tsuyoshi and Yuki Shigeko / Yasushi Inoue
  • 1950: Tsuji Ryoichi / None
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