Murakami wins the worlds' richest short story prize
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329585107-99819,00.html
Richard Lea
Monday September 25, 2006
Guardian Unlimited
Haruki Murakami has won the second Frank O'Connor International Short Story
Award for Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, his third collection of short stories
to be published in English.
The €35,000 (?23,000) prize, which is awarded to new collections published
in English during the last 12 months, is the world's richest short story
prize. The prize will be shared between Murakami and his translators, Philip
Gabriel and Jay Rubin.
At the Millennium Hall in Cork last night, Rubin paid tribute to the city's
most famous short story writer as he accepted the prize.
"If you have read Frank O'Connor's Guests of the Nation you'll be familiar
with his theme that people need to recognise each other's common humanity,"
he said. "Haruki's stories are similarly powerful. As a translator, I am
overwhelmed and honoured and I am sure Haruki will be too."
The jury, chaired by Tom McCarthy, was made up of Irish writer Claire Keegan,
English author Toby Litt, German poet Silke Scheuermann, and American
literature scholar Dr Maurice A Lee. They hailed the winning entry as a
"truly wonderful collection" from a "master of prose fiction".
"Murakami writes with great integrity," they said in a statement, "unafraid
of dealing with tough and difficult situations between people who constantly
misunderstand each other."
They praised the "terrific sense of magic" of his "truly accomplished voice",
his "contemporary ability to create extended monologues of fear" and the way
his stories push "deeper and deeper through layers of meaning". "Long after
reading his stories, the images and situations he constructs remain
unforgettable ... His writing reminds us, ultimately, that the reader comes
to published work in search of magic."
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman topped a shortlist which spanned three
continents. First collections from Irish writer Philip O' Ceallaigh and
American author Rachel Sherman were nominated alongside entries from English
writer Rose Tremain, Nepal-born Samrat Upadhyay and Peter Stamm, a Swiss
author who writes in German.
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