So this year's Nobel Prize for literature went to a Frenchman, Patrick
Modiano, with the organisers explaining they picked him: "for
the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies
and uncovered the life-world of the (Nazi) occupation (of France)".
Is this Eurocentrism? Aggrieved fans of
Haruki Murakami might think so. Here's a round-up of English-language
comment on the prize-giving committee's decision, from newspapers in
Japan.
‘Harukists’ stay positive after Murakami overlooked by Nobel again / The Asahi Shimbun
