EFEOviedo
05/24/2023 12:03 p.m.
Haruki Murakami. EUROPE PRESS
There have been 37 candidates for the award, together with that of the Spanish Javier Cercas
The Japanese author Haruki Murakami (Kyoto, 1949) has been awarded this Wednesday in Oviedo with the 2023 Princess of Literature Award, to which 37 candidates from 17 nationalities have been competing, amongst which have been the French Pierre Michon, the British Julian Barnes, the Italian Erri de Luca and the Spanish Javier Cercas.
Murakami, additionally a translator and an everlasting candidate for each this award and the Nobel, lives within the United States and obtained a powerful worldwide success along with his work “Tokio blues” (1987), titled “Norwegian Wood” in its unique model and which was translated into greater than forty languages.
The first Japanese writer to win the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature in its 43 editions thus joins a listing of winners that features, amongst 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.
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