Prize Winners
- The 1st Cikada Prize was given to the poet So Sakon (1919-2006). The prize was presented in connection with the opening of a symposium about Japanese literature at the Yasuragi in Stockholm on the 6th of August 2004. The prize was given to So Sakon at the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo on the 3rd of September 2004.
- The winner of the 2nd Cikada Prize was the haiku poet Kaneko Tota (born 1919). The prize was given to Kaneko Tota at the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo the 13th of December 2005 by the Princess Desirée of Sweden.
- The 3rd Cikada Prize was given to the Korean poet Ko Un at the Swedish Embassy in Seoul, South Korea on the 28th of November 2006.
- The 4th Cikada Prize was given to the Korean poet Shin Kyong Rim on 2007.
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