Haruki Murakami Awarded German Literary Prize Automatic translate

BERLIN. The Japanese master of magical realism received the Welt Newspaper Award. The jury, who considers Murakami the most significant representative of modern Japanese literature, noted that he was able to create "a kind of magical realism peculiar only to him."

The author of such famous works as “Kafka on the Beach”, “Norwegian Forest”, “1Q84” received an award of 10 thousand euros for his literary work. The award ceremony took place on November 7 in Berlin.

At the award ceremony, Haruki Murakami called on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the opening of borders between the two German states to a world without walls. “The wall finally collapsed, the world changed, we began to breathe freely. But then, somewhere else, a new wall suddenly grew - ethnic, religious, wall of intolerance, fundamentalism, wall of greed and fear. Can’t we live without these walls? ”

The Welt Literature Prize was established in memory of the founder of the Literary World magazine (Die literarische Welt), screenwriter, publicist and film critic Willy Haas, published between 1925 and 1934. The Welt Prize has been awarded since 1999. At various times, its winners were writers Amos Oz, Bernhard Schlink, Jonathan Franzen and Philip Roth.

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