Edogawa Rampo Prize
The Edogawa Rampo Prize, named after Edogawa Rampo, is a Japanese literary award which has been presented every year by the Mystery Writers of Japan since 1955.
Though its name is similar to the Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which has been presented by Mystery Writers of America, the Edogawa Rampo Prize is not a counterpart of the Edgar Awards. The Japanese counterparts of the Edgar awards are the Mystery Writers of Japan Awards, which honor the best in crime fiction and critical/biographical work published in the previous year.
The Edogawa Rampo Prize is an award for unpublished mystery novels. It is sponsored by Kodansha and Fuji Television. Not only is the novel of the winner, which is selected from more than 300 entries, published by Kodansha, but the winner also receives a prize of 10,000,000 yen.
The members of the 2014 selection committee are Natsuo Kirino, Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Ira Ishida, Alice Arisugawa and Bin Konno, who is the current president of the Mystery Writers of Japan.
Winners
The first and second Edogawa Rampo Prize is not the crime novel award, but an award given to persons who have made an outstanding contribution to the genre.| Year | Winner | Winning entry | Available in English Translation | |
| 1 | 1955 | Kawataro Nakajima | Biographical and bibliographical dictionary of detective fiction | |
| 2 | 1956 | Hayakawa Publishing Corporation | Publication of Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Books | |
| 3 | 1957 | Etsuko Niki | ||
| 4 | 1958 | Kyo Takigawa | ||
| 5 | 1959 | Fumiko Shinsho | ||
| 6 | 1960 | No Award Presented | ||
| 7 | 1961 | CHIN Shunshin | ||
| 8 | 1962 | Sen Saga | ||
| 8 | 1962 | Masako Togawa | The Master Key | |
| 9 | 1963 | Shota Fujimura | ||
| 10 | 1964 | Noboru Saito | ||
| 11 | 1965 | Kyotaro Nishimura | ||
| 12 | 1966 | Sakae Saito | ||
| 13 | 1967 | Eisuke Kaito | ||
| 14 | 1968 | No Award Presented | ||
| 15 | 1969 | Seiichi Morimura | ||
| 16 | 1970 | Yotaro Otani | ||
| 17 | 1971 | No Award Presented | ||
| 18 | 1972 | Shunzo Waku | ||
| 19 | 1973 | Hajime Komine | ||
| 20 | 1974 | Kyuzo Kobayashi | ||
| 21 | 1975 | Keisuke Kusaka | ||
| 22 | 1976 | Ro Tomono | ||
| 23 | 1977 | Sen Fujimoto | ||
| 23 | 1977 | Tatsuo Kaji | ||
| 24 | 1978 | Kaoru Kurimoto | ||
| 25 | 1979 | Yoshio Takayanagi | ||
| 26 | 1980 | Motohiko Izawa | ||
| 27 | 1981 | Akira Nagai | ||
| 28 | 1982 | Fumihiko Nakatsu | ||
| 28 | 1982 | Futari Okajima | ||
| 29 | 1983 | Katsuhiko Takahashi | The Case of the Sharaku Murders | |
| 30 | 1984 | Kanako Torii | ||
| 31 | 1985 | Keigo Higashino | ||
| 31 | 1985 | Masahiro Mori | ||
| 32 | 1986 | Yoko Yamazaki | ||
| 33 | 1987 | Toshihiro Ishii | ||
| 34 | 1988 | Koichi Sakamoto | ||
| 35 | 1989 | Shukei Nagasaka | ||
| 36 | 1990 | Yoichi Abe | ||
| 36 | 1990 | Ryo Toba | ||
| 37 | 1991 | Sho Narumi | ||
| 37 | 1991 | Yuichi Shimpo | ||
| 38 | 1992 | Yaichiro Kawada | ||
| 39 | 1993 | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 40 | 1994 | Hiroyuki Nakajima | ||
| 41 | 1995 | Iori Fujiwara | ||
| 42 | 1996 | Yoko Watanabe | ||
| 43 | 1997 | Hisashi Nozawa | ||
| 44 | 1998 | Harutoshi Fukui | ||
| 44 | 1998 | Jun Ikeido | ||
| 45 | 1999 | Takeshi Shinno | ||
| 46 | 2000 | Urio Shudo | ||
| 47 | 2001 | Kazuaki Takano | ||
| 48 | 2002 | Akihiro Miura | ||
| 49 | 2003 | Mihiro Akai | ||
| 49 | 2003 | Kyosuke Shiranui | ||
| 50 | 2004 | Yusuke Kamiyama | ||
| 51 | 2005 | Gaku Yakumaru | ||
| 52 | 2006 | Ran Hayase | ||
| 52 | 2006 | Ren Kaburagi | ||
| 53 | 2007 | Keisuke Sone | ||
| 54 | 2008 | Kan Shoda | ||
| 54 | 2008 | Hiromi Sueura | ||
| 55 | 2009 | Takefumi Endo | ||
| 56 | 2010 | Dai Yokozeki | ||
| 57 | 2011 | Nanao Kawase | ||
| 57 | 2011 | Mayumi Kumura | ||
| 58 | 2012 | Fumio Takano | ||
| 59 | 2013 | Yusuke Takeyoshi | ||
| 60 | 2014 | Atsushi Shimomura | ||
| 61 | 2015 | Katsuhiro Go |
Finalists available in English
Not a few finalists were published in Japan.- 18 - Misa Yamamura, The Dark Ring of Murder
- 26 - Soji Shimada, The Tokyo Zodiac Murders