Japan- based Korean author Yu Miri has actually won the National Book Award, one of the most distinguished literary reward in the United States.
Yu’s “Tokyo Ueno Station,” composed initially in Japanese, was introduced as the victor for ideal converted operate in an on the internet occasion Thursday early morning, Japan time.
“Tokyo Ueno Station” is a tale concerning a senior homeless male from Fukushima Prefecture that invests his days inTokyo’s Ueno Park It was released in Japan in 2014.
The male transfers to Tokyo to make money for his household back residence. The unique portrays carefully the life of the homeless and also reveals inequalities in Japanese culture that were neglected throughout the years of financial development.
In 1997, Yu won the Akutagawa Prize, a prominent Japanese literary honor, for her story “Family Cinema.”
She relocated to Fukushima Prefecture 4 years after it was struck by a quake, tidal wave and also nuclear mishap in 2011.
Yu commented in an online news seminar that it’s considerable that the converted story was released in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, when many individuals have no place to go and also are really feeling helpless. She stated she believes the representation of marginalized individuals won the viewers’ compassion.
Another author from Japan, Tawada Yoko, won the National Book Award for ideal converted operate in 2018 for her unique “The Emissary.”
A translation of Kawabata Yasunari’s “The Sound of the Mountain” won the honor in 1971.
米国で最も権威のある文学賞の一つ 、 全米図書賞が18日夜 ( 日本時間19日朝 ) 、 オンラインで発表され 、 翻訳文学部門で福島県南相馬市在住の芥川賞作家 、 柳美里さん ( 52 ) の JR上野駅公園口 が選ばれた 。.
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