Agatha Christie Award (Hayakawa Publishing Corporation award)

The Agatha Christie Award is a Japanese literary award for unpublished mystery novels. The award has been presented by Hayakawa Publishing Corporation in association with the Agatha Christie Society since 2010, to commemorate the 120th birthday of Agatha Christie. The winning novel, from a selection of more than 100 entries, gets published by the publishing company and the author receives a prize of 1,000,000 yen.