The Japanese writer Haruki Murakami (Kyoto, 1949) has been awarded this Wednesday in Oviedo with the 2023 Princess of Letters Award to which 37 candidates opted of 17 nationalities, including French Pierre Michon, British Julian Barnes, Italian Erri de Luca and Spanish Javier Cercas.
Murakami, also a translator and eternal candidate for both this award and the Nobel, lives in the United States and he obtained a resounding international success with his work “Tokio blues” (1987), titled “Norwegian Wood” in its original version and which was translated into more than forty languages.
The first Japanese author to win the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature in its 43 editions thus joins a list of winners that includes, among others, Mario Vargas Llosa, Miguel Delibes, Carlos Fuentes, Günter Grass, Arthur Miller, Doris Lessing, Susan Sontag, Paul Auster, Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Philip Roth , Richard Ford, Leonardo Padura or the playwright Juan Mayorga, who obtained it in 2022.
The twenty members of the jury began their deliberations yesterday to decide which writer will be awarded in a meeting chaired by the director of the Royal Spanish Academy, Santiago Muñoz Machado, who revealed that there were “three or four extraordinary oriental candidates, among the best in the world at the moment”.
Source: Lasexta
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