Honkaku Mystery Award

The Honkaku Mystery Awards (本格ミステリ大賞) are presented every year by the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan. They honor the best in honkaku (i.e. authentic, orthodox) mystery fiction and critical works published in the previous year.

Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction winners

 * Nominees available in English translation
 * 05 (2005) - Taku Ashibe, Murder in the Red Chamber (紅楼夢の殺人)
 * 10 (2010) - Yukito Ayatsuji, Another (アナザー)

Honkaku Mystery Award for Lifetime Achievement winners
The award is presented irregularly.
 * 01 (2001) - Tetsuya Ayukawa (Honkaku mystery writer)
 * 04 (2004) - Yasunobu Togawa (ja) (editor), Hideomi Uyama (ja) (editor)
 * 08 (2008) - Fu Chin-chuan (Hiroshi Shimazaki) (ja) (editor)

Best Translated Honkaku Mystery of the Decade
The Best Honkaku Mystery Novel translated into Japanese in the last decade.

Winners (in bold) and shortlisted titles.