Manhae Prize

South Korean award series
Dr. M.K. Otani receiving Manhae Prize from Mr. Kim, Cultural and Sport Minister of South Korea

The Manhae Prize is a series of awards in the following categories: Peace, Social Service, Academic Excellence, Art, Literature, and Buddhist Missionary Work awarded by The Society for the Promotion and Practice of Manhae's Thoughts in memory of Buddhist reformer and anti-Japanese independence activist Han Yong-un (1879–1944).

Awardees

Peace prize winners

  • 2008: Lokamitra (Jeremy Goody), member of the Triratna Buddhist Community
  • 2009: Shirin Ebadi Iranian human rights advocate, winner of Nobel Prize for Peace
  • 2013: World Fellowship of Buddhists
  • 2014: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iranian film director[1]
  • 2015: Alexis Dudden, Professor of History at University of Connecticut, U.S.A
  • 2019: Haruki Wada (professor at the University of Tokyo)[2]
  • 2020: Phra Bodhirak (monk and founder of Santi Asoke)[3]

Practice prize winners

  • 2012: Kurt Gribl lawyer and Mayor of the Friedensstadt (Peace city) Augsburg, Germany
  • 2013: Dagon Taryar from Myanmar[4]
  • 2014: Se-Chung Lee, lawyer, Korea
  • 2015: Joint winners: Cheoung-Jeoun Reverend of Buddhism, Korea, Rainbow Community - Noel-El Cheoun priest, from Republic of Ireland
  • 2019: National Emergency Medical Center[2]
  • 2020 Joint winners: Um Hong-gil (mountaineer), Sun Young-sung (Director of the Keimyung University Deagu Dongsan Hospital).

Literature prize winners

  • 1990: Hyun Ki-young (novelist)
  • 1998: Ko Un (poet)
  • 1999: Chung Wan-young
  • 2000: Oh Sae-young
  • 2001: Lee Hung-ki
  • 2002: Shin Kyung-rim
  • 2003: Jo Jung-rae
  • 2004: Hong Seok-jung, first DPRK author
  • 2005: Wole Soyinka
  • 2006 Joint einners: Robert Pinsky, Hwang Dong-gyu
  • 2007: Kim Nam-jo
  • 2008: Lee Eo-ryeong
  • 2009 Joint winners: Robert Hass, Kim Jong-gil
  • 2010 Joint winners: John Ralston Saul President of International PEN,[5] Jeong Jin-gyu editor of Modern Poetry, Seoul.
  • 2011: Mo Yan
  • 2012: Kim Jay Hong
  • 2013: Konstantin Kedrov (poet), Ingo Schulze
  • 2014 Joint winners: Ashraf Dali, Egyptian poet and writer[6] Yoon Yang-hee, calligrapher, Korea[7]
  • 2015 Joint winners: Young-Bok shin professor, SoungKongHoe University, Korea, Hyon-Jong Jeong, Poet, Korea, Byong-Kee Hwang, Master of Korean classical music, Korea
  • 2016: Lee In-hwi, labor literature author
  • 2019 Joint winners: Im Young-woong (theatre director) and Kim Uchang (Professor Emeritus of Korea University)[2]
  • 2020 Joint winners: Kim Joo-young (writer) and Shin Dal-ja (poet)[3]

References

  1. ^ "Iranian film director wins Manhae Award". Korea Times. 2014-08-12. Retrieved 2024-07-01.
  2. ^ a b c "Four Awardees Selected for the 23rd Manhae Prize". Dongguk University. August 16, 2019. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
  3. ^ a b "Five Winners Selected for the 24th Manhae Prize". Dongguk University. July 28, 2020. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
  4. ^ "Dagon Taryar awarded peace prize". Archived from the original on 2015-10-07. Retrieved 2013-08-25.
  5. ^ "Ralston Saul wins Korea's Manhae Prize". CBC Arts. 2010-03-10. Archived from the original on 2023-08-26. Retrieved 2024-07-01.
  6. ^ "Ashraf Dali, 2014 Manhae Grand Prize Awardees Reports in Middle East". Asia Journalist Association. 2014-08-21. Archived from the original on 2015-01-30. Retrieved 2024-07-01.
  7. ^ AJA article
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