Manhae Prize
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[]
Selected awardees with Wikipedia entries:
Peace prize winners[]
- 2015 , Professor of History at University of Connecticut, U.S.A
- 2014 Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iranian film director[1]
- 2013 World Fellowship of Buddhists
- 2009 Shirin Ebadi Iranian human rights advocate, winner of Nobel Prize for Peace
- 2008 Lokamitra (Jeremy Goody), member of the Triratna Buddhist Community
Practice prize winners[]
- 2015 Joint Winners : Reverend of Buddhism, Korea, priest, from Republic of Ireland
- 2014 , lawyer, Korea
- 2013 Dagon Taryar from Myanmar[2]
- 2012 Kurt Gribl lawyer and Mayor of the Friedensstadt (Peace city) Augsburg, Germany
Literature prize winners[]
- 2015 Joint winners : professor, SoungKongHoe University, Korea, , Poet, Korea, , Master of Korean classical music, Korea
- 2014 Joint winners: Ashraf Dali, Egyptian poet and writer[3] , calligrapher, Korea[4]
- 2013 Konstantin Kedrov (poet), Ingo Schulze
- 2012 Kim Jay Hong
- 2011 Mo Yan
- 2010 Joint winners: John Ralston Saul President of International PEN,[5] Jeong Jin-gyu editor of Modern Poetry, Seoul.
- 2009 Joint winners: Robert Hass, Kim Jong-gil
- 2008 Lee Eo-ryeong
- 2007 Kim Nam-jo
- 2006 Joint Winners: Robert Pinsky, Hwang Dong-gyu
- 2005 Wole Soyinka
- 2004 Hong Seok-jung, first DPRK author.
- 2003 Jo Jung-rae
- 2002 Shin Kyung-rim
- 2001 Lee Hung-ki
- 2000 Oh Sae-young
- 1999 Chung Wan-young
- 1998 Ko Un (poet)
- 1990 Hyun Ki-young (novelist)
References[]
- ^ Korea Times article Archived 2015-07-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-10-07. Retrieved 2013-08-25.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ AJA article
- ^ AJA article
- ^ CBC article
Categories:
- Peace awards
- South Korean awards
- South Korean literary awards
- Annual events in South Korea