Nikkei Novel Award
Literary award with open submissions for long novels, co-sponsored by The Nikkei and Nikkei BP.
- Established
- 2006
- Organizer
- The Nikkei and Nikkei BP
- Category
- General Fiction and Popular Fiction
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Open
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Status
- Active
Description
Founded in 2006 to commemorate the 130th anniversary of the Nikkei newspaper, the award has been held annually since the 4th edition in 2012. Until 2019, it was co-hosted by Nikkei Inc. and Nikkei Shimbun Shuppansha, but since April 2020 the co-host has been Nikkei BP following a merger. The prize money is 10 million yen for the first three editions and 5 million yen from the fourth onwards. Entries are long-form novels of approximately 300 to 400 manuscript pages with no genre restrictions.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Grand Prize
- Cash Prize
- 5,000,000 JPY
- Prize money was 10 million yen from the 1st to 3rd editions
Related Awards
- List of literary awards
Past Winners
A historical mystery set in late-Edo Oshu, where each character's role and choices intersect.
The history of a distant island quietly illuminates human roles.
Tokyo Fushin Biyori follows a young architectural designer in a city being remade before the Tokyo Olympics. Through work, art, and his relationship with his brother, he reconsiders where he stands in a changing Tokyo.
From the scaffolding of a changing city, a young designer searches for the meaning of his work.
The New Diary of Murasaki Shikibu is a historical novel that reimagines Murasaki Shikibu's life and the creation of The Tale of Genji. It links court politics, literature, and women's lives while asking how storytelling confronts power.
The brush of a woman writer illuminates the shadows and ambitions of the court.
Mad Song is introduced here as a work whose Japanese description centers on 仮想通貨, 復讐. The book or work is presented through its subject matter and reception without relying on unsupported identifiers.
Mad Song draws readers into its world through 仮想通貨.
大友二階崩れ is an award-winning work by 赤神諒. It is presented here as the work associated with the 日経小説大賞.
An award-winning work by 赤神諒: 大友二階崩れ.
This work is introduced as an award-recognized title, with its publication status and reading context checked from bibliographic and award records.
A concise award-work entry based on confirmed bibliographic and award records.
公方様のお通り抜け is an award-recognized work by 西山ガラシャ. Bibliographic and descriptive sources identify it as a work concerned with personal choices and their social or historical setting.
公方様のお通り抜け, read through its award history and bibliographic record.
女たちの審判 by 紺野仲右ヱ門 is recorded as the work attached to this award entry. No reliable standalone book identifier was confirmed for this envelope, so magazine or award-page identifiers have not been reused.
A concise profile of 女たちの審判 by 紺野仲右ヱ門, including award and bibliographic context.
スコールの夜 is recorded as a 2013 award-winning work. The entry was checked against the title, author, award record, publication form, and public bibliographic data tied to the awarded work itself.
Bibliographic and work information for スコールの夜 is organized without substituting magazine identifiers.
A child vanishes from a tightly controlled security checkpoint at a U.S. airport. As investigators stall and a lawsuit unfolds, a reporter follows the case into a human mystery about loss, family, and recovery.
A child disappears from a sealed airport space, and the mystery widens into social questions and a family's wounds across Japan and the United States.
野いばら is a 長編小説 by 梶村啓二. The work is recorded as an award-recognized title and presents its subject through the images suggested by the title, the author's concerns, and the movement of memory or feeling.
野いばら presents 梶村啓二's work in the form of 長編小説.
松林図屏風 is an award-winning work by 萩耿介. Published as a standalone book, it follows its characters' choices and the atmosphere surrounding them through the subject and voice recognized by the prize.
松林図屏風 is a work by 萩耿介 recognized by the 日経小説大賞.
An adult love story set in London, where a male expatriate at a Japanese company and a female stage director fall in love. Both carry divorce, age, and caution, and their intimacy grows through hesitation.
In mature London, a quiet love begins between two people old enough to know restraint.