Saturday 11 October 2014

Murakami doesn't get Nobel

So this year's Nobel Prize for literature went to a Frenchman, Patrick Modiano, with the organisers explaining they picked him: "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the (Nazi) occupation (of France)".

Is this Eurocentrism?  Aggrieved fans of Haruki Murakami might think so.  Here's a round-up of English-language comment on the prize-giving committee's decision, from newspapers in Japan. 




The New Yorker has also chipped in to the debate, with The Harukists, Disappointed.