What is "bungei"

Bungei may refer to:

• Bungei (magazine), a Japanese literary magazine
• The Bungei Prize, a literary prize of Japan, awarded by Bungei
• Bungeishunjū, a Japanese publishing company known for its literary magazine of the same name
• Wilfred Bungei, Kenyan middle-distance runner

is a Japanese literary magazine, published by Kawade Shobō Shinsha. It was founded in 1933, and was originally published monthly, but became a quarterly in the 1980s. The magazine oversees the Bungei Prize, an open competition for discovering new writers. Writers such as Yasuo Tanaka, Akemi Hotta, Risa Wataya, and Natsu Minami are former prize-winners.