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The Murasaki Shikibu Prize (Japanese: 紫式部文学賞, romanized: Murasaki Shikibu bungaku shō) is a Japanese literary award awarded annually to an outstanding piece of literature in Japanese by a female author. It was established in 1991 by the city of Uji in Kyoto Prefecture in honor of Murasaki Shikibu's deep connection to the city of ...
Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部, ' Lady Murasaki '; c. 973 – c. 1014 or 1025) was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period. She was best known as the author of The Tale of Genji , widely considered to be one of the world's first novels , written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012.
The novelist Yasunari Kawabata said in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech: "The Tale of Genji in particular is the highest pinnacle of Japanese literature. Even down to our day there has not been a piece of fiction to compare with it." 2000 yen note with The Tale of Genji and Murasaki Shikibu on the right corner
The Tale of Genji was written in the early 11th century by the noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu and is considered ... The following women have won the Nobel Prize in ...
Murasaki Shikibu wrote her diary at the Heian imperial court between c. 1008 – c. 1010.She is depicted here in a c. 1765 nishiki-e by Komatsuken.. The Diary of Lady Murasaki (紫式部日記, Murasaki Shikibu Nikki) is the title given to a collection of diary fragments written by the 11th-century Japanese Heian era lady-in-waiting and writer Murasaki Shikibu.
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Edward George Seidensticker (February 11, 1921 – August 26, 2007) was a noted post-World War II American scholar, historian, and preeminent translator of classical and contemporary Japanese literature.
Yasunari Kawabata, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature [3] Yukio Mishima [1] Haruki Murakami; Kenzaburo Oe, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature [4] Murasaki Shikibu, author of The Tale of Genji [2] [5] Sei Shonagon, author of The Pillow Book [2] Natsume Soseki, author of Kokoro [1] Junichiro Tanizaki [1] Kenko Yoshida, author of Essays ...