Tanizaki Prize
In 1968 Maruya won the Akutagawa Prize for "Toshi no nokori" (年 の 残り, The Rest of the Year). In 1972 he published "Tatta hitori no hanran" (たった ひとり の 反乱, Singular Rebellion), for which he won the Tanizaki Prize. He also received the Kawabata Prize, the Kikuchi Kan Prize for Cultural Merit and the Noma Literary Prize (1985), and the Order of Culture, awarded in 2011 by the Emperor of Japan.