your name is always in their pools Nobel and the same thing seemed to have happened with Princesa. At least he stayed at the gates a few times. But finally, Haruki Murakami (Kyoto, 1949) ensured that no one eclipsed his solid candidacy, already a classic in world literature, and new Princess of Asturias Literary Award 2023.
Best-selling Japanese novelist with simple language, science fiction, magical realism, surrealism, and more that the naive finds too American, and who made it great themes of loneliness, love, loss and also pop culture, you are lucky. The “uniqueness of its literature”, its “universal scope and ability to reconcile Japanese tradition and the legacy of Western culture in an ambitious and innovative narrative” are some of the jury’s arguments in support of the award.
Murakami, formerly Emmanuel Carrère, Anne Carson, Siri Hustvedt, John Banville, Margaret Atwood, Antonio Munoz Molina, Arthur Miller, Paul Auster, Doris Lessing and Juan Rulfo. This year, the selection of the winner of the Letters has reached its final stage. 37 applications from 17 countries and the deciding jury consisted of Santiago Muñoz Machado (president), Sergio Vila-Sanjuán Robert, Xosé Ballesteros, Blanca Berasátegui, Anna Caballé and Gonzalo Celorio. Said Jesús García, José Luis García Delgado, Pablo Gil Cuevas, Francisco Goyanes, Lola Larumbe, Carmen Millán, Leonardo Padura, José María Pou, Fernando Rodríguez Lafuente, Ana Santos, Jaime Siles, Anne-Hélène Suárez and Juan Villoro.
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto but grew up in Kobe. His parents were Japanese literature teachers at a high school, and he began his literary apprenticeship with them. He became fond of American detective novels at a very young age and broke away from Japanese literature. It was the sixties, and Western culture began to occupy the center of his universe: literature, pop, jazz, rock… This musicin fact, very present in his works. He studied Literature and Greek at Waseda University (Sodai), where he met his wife Yoko.
He wrote his first novel, Listen to the Wind Sing, at the age of thirty; He moved to the United States and immediately Biggest Literary Hits: ‘Tokyo Blues (1987), “Dance Dance Dance” (1988),’The history of the bird that surrounded the world (nineteen ninety-five)‘Underground’ (1997), which he wrote on his return to Japan after the Kobe earthquake and after the sarin gas terror attack on the Tokyo subway that resulted in thirteen dead and six thousand injured. They would follow hits like ‘kafka on the beach‘(2002),’after dark’ (2004) and three volumes “1Q84” (2009)until it reached fifty million copies sold worldwide. There are many readers who enjoy the surreal and fatalistic touch of Murakami’s worlds where he blends the real and the dreamlike. He has written novels, short stories, essays and illustrated stories.
If Murakami is lucky, so are the members of all the book clubs in Asturias again this year. read or reread your novels and perhaps if Murakami confirms that he is in Spain to receive the award at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo in October, they will be able to have direct talks with the author.
A rosary of “popular” awards
Forty-third of the 2023 Princess of Asturias Awards, this year they stand out with their popularity. Five of the awards that make up each edition have already been awarded. He previously presented the Arts Award to American actress Meryl Streep, the Communications and Humanities Award to Italian professor, writer and philosopher Nuccio Ordine, the Social Sciences Award to French historian Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, and the Sports Award. He gave it to the athlete. Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge.
In the coming weeks (respectively) those corresponding to International Cooperation, Scientific and Technical Research and Concordia will be determined. The Princess of Asturias Awards ceremony will be held traditionally. with a solemn ceremony in October Headed by Her Majesty the King and Queen of Spain, with Her Majesty the Princess of Asturias and Infanta Sofía.
Each Princess of Asturias Award is awarded a statue of Joan Miró, a representative symbol of the award, an accreditation diploma, an insignia and a cash of fifty thousand euros.