The Premi Internacional Catalunya includes a prize of 80,000 euros and a sculpture from Catalan artist Antoni Tàpies. According to the prize’s jury, “he has built a literary bridge between East and West”. The author of ‘Norwegian Wood’, ‘Kafka on the Shore’ and ‘After Dark’ has an individual universe, which switches between dreams and reality. Murakami was awarded by the jury because “his work transcends its cultural environment and he has become a reference for the literary world”. Other winners have been: the leader of Myanmar’s opposition Aung San Suu Kyi, the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, American writer Harold Bloom, French oceanographer Jacques Yves Cousteau, British philosopher Karl Popper, Indian economist Amartya Sen, former Czech Republic President and writer Václav Havel, or former European Commission President Jacques Delors, among others. Last year, former US President Jimmy Carter received the award. It is awarded annually by the Catalan Government to individuals who have contributed decisively with their work to develop cultural, scientific and human values around the world. Salinger and John Irving.įor the jury, he is a disturbing novelist, influenced by Dostoyevsky, Dickens and Vargas Llosa, who uses humor and surrealism to address serious social problems and the defense of human values.Barcelona (ACN).- The Japanese writer Haruki Murakami has won this year’s prestigious international prize, the ‘Premi Internacional Catalunya’. He translated into Japanese English-speaking authors such as Raymond Carver, F. His triumphant Tokyo Blues in 1987, translated into 35 languages and selling more than ten million copies, paved the way for other major projects, Kafka on the Shore, 1Q84 and After Dark. In novels and essays, he has addressed the care of the body or his own reflection on creative work, and his voice has reached very different generations to become a great long-distance runner in contemporary literature, the jury emphasized. The jury, chaired by the director of the Royal Spanish Academy, Santiago Muñoz Machado, praised his ability to express the great themes and conflicts of our time, such as loneliness, existential uncertainty, dehumanization in big cities and terrorism.
During his career, Murakami has elegantly combined Japan’s traditions and the legacy of Western culture. His works have been translated into more than 40 languages. In its announcement, the foundation that organizes the traditional Princess of Asturias Award highlighted the jury’s comments on the uniqueness of the essays, short stories and novels by the Kyoto-born author of ‘Tokyo blues.’ In 2022, his name transcended into cinema with the an Oscar Award for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s film ‘Drive my car,’ inspired in his short story of the same name. The 72-year-old author is perhaps one of the most prolific and successful writers, not only in Japan.
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