Japan's novelist, Haruki Murakami is the first asian to win the Israeli Literary Prize. Report says:
In his speech at the ceremony, Murakami, 60, stressed that each person must work to stop states and organizations from getting out of control, apparently criticizing Israel’s recent large-scale offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Murakami said he thought that attending the ceremony might give the impression that he supports Israel’s dependence on its overwhelming military but said he eventually decided to ‘‘speak rather than say nothing.’’
During the 15-minute speech in English, he warned that the system, which is supposed to protect people, ‘‘sometimes takes on a life of its own and it begins to kill us and cause us to kill others coldly, efficiently and systematically.’’
Murakami's famous novels includes:
South of the Border, West of the Sun
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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