※ [本文转录自 book 看板] 作者: bucklee (alessio) 看板: book 标题: [新闻] Murakami wins the worlds' richest short story prize 时间: Mon Sep 25 23:48:32 2006 Murakami wins the worlds' richest short story prize 村上春树获得最高奖金短篇小说奖 村上以第三本翻译成英文的短篇小说集：盲柳，与睡觉的女人获得2006年 法兰克奥康纳国际短篇小说奖。(此篇收录在中文版的莱辛顿的幽灵小说集中) 相关详细报导请见此篇卫报的文章 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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