Haruki Murakami missed the Nobel Prize again because the work was too popular?

　　Chinanews Client Beijing, October 9th (Reporter Shangguanyun) On October 8, Beijing time, the results of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature were announced: American poet Louise Glick won this honor.

American poetess Louise Greco won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.

(Image source: Nobel Prize official social network account)

　　Early in the morning on the 9th, #村上春树进行伴跑文学奖# rushed to the hot search.

Some netizens lamented that Haruki Murakami once again missed the Nobel Prize in Literature, and others posted more classic sentences in his works.

　　There are also many people discussing, when will Haruki Murakami win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

How likely is he to win the prize?

Haruki Murakami of the

　　In recent years, Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has been a popular candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but he has basically failed many times.

Therefore, some people jokingly call him "Wan Nian Run".

　　Since he won the Franz Kafka Prize, known as the "Prelude to the Nobel Prize in Literature" in 2006, he has appeared at the top of many bookmakers' odds every year.

But Haruki Murakami himself claimed that his motivation for writing comes from readers, not awards.

　　Haruki Murakami is not the only famous writer who missed the Nobel Prize.

According to statistics from the media, many literary masters missed the Nobel Prize in the past 100 years: including Leo Tolstoy, Ibsen, Kafka, Chekhov, and so on.

　　"According to my observations, the more readers pursue the great, the less the Nobel Prize will be considered. Therefore, the more'hot' writers, the less likely they will be to win the award." Bai Ye, a well-known literary critic, accepted the China News Network reporter Said in the interview.

　　He mentioned that Haruki Murakami has a wide range of art. There are elegant and popular works. Some works such as "Norwegian Forest" have become popular literature classics.

Whether Haruki Murakami won the Nobel Prize will not affect his position in the hearts of readers.

How likely is he to win the Nobel Prize?

　　In addition to "accompanying running", there is also a more popular question: how likely is Haruki Murakami to win the Nobel Prize in the future?

Data map: Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami.

　　Since the Nobel Prize in Literature seems to have always favored "serious literature" works, some people think that Haruki Murakami's "works are more popular" and there is little hope of winning the Nobel Prize.

　　Lin Shaohua, a translator who has translated many works of Haruki Murakami, thinks that Haruki Murakami is very likely to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, because his works are not popular literature in the general sense, but have intellectual and aesthetic pursuits. "Pure Literature".

　　Haruki Murakami did not win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and perhaps there is a "pot" in the translation of works.

Lin Shaohua added that the stories in Murakami's novels are very interesting, and the indescribable charm of its style is probably more attractive than the stories.

　　"And this subtle charm seems to have not been fully conveyed in the English translation." He guessed that this may also be one of the reasons why Murakami has been "accompanying on the run".

A writer who "keep on writing"

　　In addition, some people shared the classic sentences written by Haruki Murakami.

　　Haruki Murakami's first work is called "Listen to the Wind", which won the Japan Group Portrait Newcomer Award.

In 1987, his novel "Norway's Forest" was sold worldwide, causing the "Murakami Phenomenon" and increasing popularity.

In recent years, both his novel "Assassination of the Knight Captain" and the interview "The Owl Takes Off at Twilight" have been published in simplified Chinese.

"The Owl Takes Off at Twilight."

Published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House

　　Lin Shaohua said, “When Haruki Murakami met with me earlier, he said that he must insist on writing it down. This is very clear.”

　　He believes, or perhaps to put it this way: Writing has become Haruki Murakami's life state and life state itself.

In other words, if the two activities of writing and translation are taken out of Murakami's life, he might not know how to live.

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