Manhae Prize
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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

See Manhae Prize website, full list of awardees

Selected awardees with Wikipedia entries:

Peace prize winners

  • 2009 Shirin Ebadi
    Shirin Ebadi
    Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, a former judge and human rights activist and founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. On 10 October 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially women's,...

     Iranian Human Rights Advocate, Winner of Nobel Prize for Peace

Literature prize winners

  • 2010 Joint winners: John Ralston Saul
    John Ralston Saul
    John Ralston Saul, CC is a Canadian author, essayist, and President of International PEN.As an essayist, Saul is particularly known for his commentaries on the nature of individualism, citizenship and the public good; the failures of manager-, or more precisely technocrat-, led societies; the...

     President of International PEN, Jeong Jin-gyu editor of Modern Poetry, Seoul.
  • 2009 Joint winner Robert Haas
    Robert Haas
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  • 2005 Wole Soyinka
    Wole Soyinka
    Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognised as a man "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence", and became the first African in Africa and...

  • 2004 Hong Seok-jung
    Hong Seok-jung
    Hong Sok-jung , born in Seoul in 1941, is a North Korean writer.He is the grandson of novelist Hong Myong-hui.He moved to North Korea with his family after the Second World War. He served in the Korean People's Navy, and obtained a degree in literature at Kim Il Sung University. His first published...

    , first DPRK author
    North Korean literature
    The partition of Korea following the Second World War led to a considerable cross-border movement, which included writers moving from North to South or from South to North.North Korea's subsequent literary tradition was shaped and controlled by the State...

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  • 1989 Ko Un
    Ko Un
    Ko Un is a South Korean poet. His works have been translated and published in more than 15 countries and he has been imprisoned many times...

    poet
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