Noma Literary Prize 1959 - Japan Art Academy member 1963 - Person of Cultural Merit 1967 - Order of Culture Legacy The Kobayashi Hideo Prize (Kobayashi Hideo Shō) was established in 2002 by the Shinchō Bungei Shinkō Kai (Shinchō Society for the Promotion of the Literary Arts). It is awarded annually to a work of nonfiction published in Japanese, between July 1 and the following June 30, that offers a fresh image of the world based on the demonstration of a free spirit and supple intellect. The winner receives a commemorative gift and a cash award of 1 million yen. See also Japanese literature List of Japanese authors External links Japan Focus article on Kobayashi Hideo Site on Shinchosha Publishing Company (Japanese) References Anderer, Paul. ed. Literature of the Lost Home: Kobayashi Hideo Literary Criticism, 1924-1939. Stanford University Press (1995). Dorsey, James. _Critical Aesthetics: Kobayashi Hideo, Modernity, and Wartime Japan_ (Harvard Asia Center/Harvard UP, 2009). ; Takamizawa, Junko. My Brother Hideo Kobayashi. University of Hawaii Press (2001). 1902 births 1983 deaths 20th-century Japanese male writers Japanese literary critics Writers from Tokyo University of Tokyo alumni Recipients of the Order of Culture Deaths from kidney failure 20th-century Japanese writers