Kenji Maruyama

Japanese writer

Kenji Maruyama (丸山 健二, Maruyama Kenji, born December 23, 1943) is a Japanese author. He received the Akutagawa Prize for one of his novels, Summer’s Passage (夏の流れ, Natsu no nagare), in 1966, at the age of 23, becoming the third of an often touted group of college seniors to win the prize at age 23, following Ishihara Shintaro and Oe Kenzaburo.

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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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