HARUKI MURAKAMI WILL RECEIVE THE PRINCESS OF ASTURIAS AWARD FOR LITERATURE
The jury of the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature 2023 unanimously awarded the award to writer Haruki Murakami on the day 24 of May. The Japanese author becomes the first Japanese to achieve recognition and succeeds the playwright in the honors list. JOHN MAYORGA, who was part of the court in charge of awarding the award.
The writer Haruki Murakami.
The committee's minutes highlighted "the uniqueness of its literature, its universal reach, his ability to reconcile Japanese tradition and the legacy of Western culture in an ambitious and innovative narrative, "who has been able to express some of the great themes and conflicts of our time". Since the author is not very fond of interviews, There are still no known statements from him about the award.
Murakami was born in Kyoto in the year 1949 and stands out for novels such as 'Tokio blues', 'Kafka on the shore’ y ‘1Q84’. His literary production is starring characters who defend their individuality against Japanese society., more oriented towards the collective. En este sentido, The Japanese writer is influenced by great Western writers such as Albert Camus, Gabriel García Márquez and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
This mixture of styles has meant that his books have been translated into more than 50 languages and that his name is one of the most repeated among the candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The author's stories are also highly recognized and the feature film 'Drive my car', which won the Oscar for best non-English language film 2020, is inspired by one of them.
The Princess of Asturias Award for Literature award gala is scheduled for the month of October. Murakami's new work, which has recently been published in Japan, will arrive in Spain in 2024 with the name of 'The city and its uncertain walls'.
his unwavering faith in God and the numerous trips that brought him into contact with diverse cultures and to settle in Santa Eulària
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