Two Japanese Nobel Prize winners in literature in Asia

Yasunari Kawabata and Kenzaburo Oe.

Haruki Murakami is not included.

Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, known as the "little plum" of the Nobel Prize world, has been regarded as the favorite for the Nobel Prize in Literature for seven consecutive years since 2009, but has failed to win the prize.

Haruki Murakami, despite being Japanese at heart, has a largely Westernized perspective. He often examines, grasps, and feels everything about Japanese society from a non-Japanese perspective, and uses a non-Japanese language to interrogate contemporary Japanese discourse.

Japan's Nobel Prize winners are Yasunari Kawabata and Kenzaburo Oe.

Yasunari Kawabata was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. His work "Snow Country" has been called a classic of modern Japanese lyrical literature. Representative works "Snow Country", "Ancient Capital", "Thousand Paper Cranes".

Kenzaburo Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994. A well-known existentialist writer in contemporary Japan, he writes characters with personal charm to achieve the reality of **. Representative works "The Football Team of the First Year of Wanyan" and "Personal Experience".

Japan's Nobel Prize winners are Yasunari Kawabata and Kenzaburo Oe.

Japanese Nobel Prize winners include Yasunari Kawabata and Kenzaburo Oe.

1. Yasunari Kawabata.

Yasunari Kawabata, a "titan" figure in the Japanese literary world, a writer of the New Sensation School, and a famous ** artist.

Born in Osaka on June 14, 1899. Graduated from the University of Tokyo. When his parents died when he was young, and then his sister and grandparents died one after another, he was called "a celebrity who attended funerals".

After traveling a lot throughout his life, he was depressed and melancholy, and gradually formed a sentimental and lonely character, and this inner pain and sorrow became the background color of Yasunari Kawabata's literature later.

In 1968, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his three masterpieces, "Snow Country", "Ancient Capital" and "Thousand Cranes".

2. Kenzaburo Oe.

Kenzaburo Oe is a famous Japanese writer. In 1958, the landmark short story "Breeding" was published in "Literary World" and won the 39th Akutagawa Literary Award, officially entering the Japanese literary scene as a professional writer.

In 1965, "Personal Experience" won the 11th "New Wave Literature Award".

In 1967, he published "Football in the First Year of Manyeon" and won the third "Junichiro Tanizaki Award".

In 1989, he was awarded the Juropari Literary Prize established by the European Community.

In 1992, he won the Montero Literary Prize in Italy.

In 1973, the long story "The Flood and My Soul" won the 26th "Noma Literature Award".

In 1994, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Japan's second Nobel laureate in literature is Kenzaburo Oe.

Kenzaburo Oe (January 31, 1935, March 3, 2023), born in Ose Village, Kita County, Ehime Prefecture, Shikoku Island, southern Japan, is a famous Japanese writer.

In March 1950, Kenzaburo Oe graduated from Ose Junior High School at the age of 15, and in April he was promoted to Ehime Prefectural Uchiko High School, and in April of the following year, he was transferred to Ehime Prefectural Matsuyama High School, a prestigious school where Natsubui Soseki once taught. Throughout his middle school years, he wrote nearly 40 poems, reviews, essays, and short stories.

In 1992, he won the Montero Literary Prize in Italy. In 1973, the long story "The Flood and My Soul" won the 26th "Noma Literature Award". In 1994, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

History of the "Nobel Prize in Literature":

Nobel Laureates in Literature (Nobel Laureates in Literature; Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by the Nobel Priset I Litteratur, which is awarded to the best work in the field of literature that produces the best work of the desired tendency.

The Nobel Prize in Literature was first awarded in 1901. In 1931, Eric Axe-Shan Karlfeld was posthumously awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first posthumous recipient. In 2012, Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first Chinese writer to win the prize.

The selection committee for the Nobel Prize in Literature usually announces the winner in October of each year. The award ceremony is held in Stockholm, Sweden on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death, and is presented by the King of Sweden himself.