鲇川哲也奖,1990年创设。由东京创元社出资主办,面向大众征集新作品,通过预选考后,最后评出大奖。第一、二届时,预选任务由评选委员自己担任,但从第三届开始,邀请了外部人士进行预考,并一直沿用至今。 Chukawa Tetsuya Prize was established in 1990. Sponsored by Tokyo Genesis Co., Ltd., it recruited new works for the public and passed the pre-selection exams to finally judge the awards. In the first and second sessions, the pre-selection tasks were held by the selection committee members themselves, but from the third session onwards, outsiders were invited to conduct the pre-examination and have been using them up to now.