村上春樹氏、2015年もノーベル文学賞を逃す スベトラーナ・アレクシエービッチ氏が受賞

ノーベル委員会は10月8日、2015年のノーベル文学賞をベラルーシの作家スベトラーナ・アレクシエービッチ氏に授与すると発表した。ここ数年、有力候補に挙がっている日本の村上春樹氏は受賞できなかった。
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Novelist Haruki Murakami of Japan gestures during the ceremony for the Franz Kafka International Literary award hosted at the Prague's Old Town Hall, Czech Republic on Monday, Oct. 30, 2006. Murakami was chosen in March by an international jury which includes prominent German literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki and British publisher John Calder to win the annual Franz Kafka Prize, the Franz Kafka Society said. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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ノーベル委員会は10月8日、2015年のノーベル文学賞をベラルーシの作家スベトラーナ・アレクシエービッチ氏に授与すると発表した。ここ数年、有力候補に挙がっていた日本の村上春樹氏は受賞できなかった。47NEWSによると、アレクシエービッチ氏は、チェルノブイリ原発事故で被害を受けた人々の証言を集めたノンフィクション作品「チェルノブイリの祈り」などで知られている。

「ノルウェイの森」「ねじまき鳥クロニクル」などの作品で世界的に有名な村上氏は、賭け率チャートでは毎年、ノーベル賞の有力候補に挙げられている。2015年も世界最大規模のブックメーカー(賭け屋)であるイギリスの「ラドブロークス」による予想では、村上春樹氏が2番人気となっていた

村上氏本人は、著書の「村上さんのところ」で、「正直なところ、わりに迷惑です。だって正式な最終候補になっているわけじゃなくて、ただ民間のブックメーカーが賭け率を決めているだけですからね。競馬じゃあるまいし」と記していた。

村上春樹 画像集
村上春樹(01 of16)
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▽ムラカミハルキ \n作家 \n\n撮影日: 1982/12/2 (credit:時事通信社)
村上春樹(02 of16)
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▽ムラカミハルキ \n作家 \n\n撮影日: 1996/02/00 (credit:時事通信社)
カフカ賞受賞の村上春樹氏(03 of16)
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フランツ・カフカ賞を受賞した作家の村上春樹氏(右)。左は陽子夫人(チェコ・プラハ) \n\n撮影日: 2006/10/30 (credit:時事通信社)
GERMANY-JAPAN-LITERATURE-MURAKAMI(04 of16)
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Japanese writer Haruki Murakami shields reacts as he poses with his trophy prior to an award ceremony for the Germany\'s Welt Literature Prize bestowed by the German daily Die Welt, in Berlin on November 7, 2014. AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL (Photo credit should read JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:JOHN MACDOUGALL via Getty Images)
「エルサレム賞」受賞の村上春樹さん(05 of16)
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イスラエル最高の文学賞「エルサレム賞」の授賞式を終えた後、地元ファンのサインの求めに応じる作家の村上春樹さん(エルサレム) \n\n撮影日: 2009/02/15 (credit:時事通信社)
スピーチする村上春樹さん(06 of16)
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イスラエルの文学賞「エルサレム賞」の受賞スピーチを行う作家の村上春樹さん(エルサレム) \n\n撮影日: 2009/02/15 (credit:時事通信社)
村上春樹 (07 of16)
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Japanese writer Haruki Murakami poses during his first public meeting with Spanish readers in Barcelona, Spain, 16 March 2009. Murakami, is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and critics often tip him for the Nobel Prize in Literature. EPA/ANDREU DALMAU\n\n撮影日: 2009/03/16 (credit:EPA時事)
「1Q84」の専売コーナー (08 of16)
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作家村上春樹さんの長編小説「1Q84」の専売コーナーを設け、実物を使って小説のタイトルを表現する書店(台湾・台北市) \n\n撮影日: 2009/11/22 (credit:時事通信社)
Haruki Murakami(09 of16)
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TOKYO, JAPAN - DECEMBER 14, 2004: Haruki Murakami, the Japanese best selling author/writer/novelist and essayist, on December 14, 2004 in Tokyo, Japan. Murakami is best known as the best selling author of books such as \'Norwegian Wood\', \'The Wild Sheep Chase\', \'Underground\', \'Kafka on The Shore\' and \'What I Talk About When I Talk About Running\'. Murakami is also an experienced long distance marathon runner, and a translator of other authors\' works. (Photo by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
村上春樹氏(10 of16)
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スペインのバルセロナで記者会見を前にした村上春樹氏。同氏は第23回カタルーニャ国際賞を授与された(スペイン・バルセロナ) \n\n撮影日: 2011/06/08 (credit:時事通信社)
村上春樹氏(11 of16)
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撮影に応じる村上春樹氏=1982年12月27日、東京都千代田区の山の上ホテル \n\n撮影日: 1982/12/27 (credit:時事通信社)
GERMANY-JAPAN-LITERATURE-MURAKAMI(12 of16)
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Japanese writer Haruki Murakami shields his eyes to avoid photographers\' flash as he poses with his trophy prior to an award ceremony for the Germany\'s Welt Literature Prize bestowed by the German daily Die Welt, in Berlin on November 7, 2014. AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL (Photo credit should read JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:JOHN MACDOUGALL via Getty Images)
GERMANY-JAPAN-LITERATURE-MURAKAMI(13 of16)
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Japanese writer Haruki Murakami shields his eyes to avoid photographers\' flash as he poses with his trophy prior to an award ceremony for the Germany\'s Welt Literature Prize bestowed by the German daily Die Welt, in Berlin on November 7, 2014. AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL (Photo credit should read JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:JOHN MACDOUGALL via Getty Images)
GERMANY-JAPAN-LITERATURE-MURAKAMI(14 of16)
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Japanese writer Haruki Murakami poses with his trophy prior to an award ceremony for the Germany\'s Welt Literature Prize bestowed by the German daily Die Welt, in Berlin on November 7, 2014. AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL (Photo credit should read JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:JOHN MACDOUGALL via Getty Images)
JAPAN-LITERATURE-MURAKAMI(15 of16)
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Publicity-shy Japanese author Haruki Murakami arrives to give a public lecture in Kyoto on May 6, 2013. The author, whose new novel \'Shikisai wo Motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to Kare no Junrei no Toshi\' (Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage) was released in Japan on April 12, divides his time between his native Japan and the US and rarely appears in public. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:YOSHIKAZU TSUNO via Getty Images)
Japanese Writer Haruki Murakami Receives 2006 Franz Kafka Award(16 of16)
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PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC - OCTOBER 30: German professor of literature and director of Franz Kafka Society, Kurt Krolop presents Japanese writer, Haruki Murakami with the Franz Kafka Award for 2006 at the 2006 Franz Kafka Award Ceremony in the Old Town Hall on October 30, 2006 in Prague, Czech Republic. (Photo by Filip Singer/isifa/Getty Images) (credit:isifa via Getty Images)
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