Haruki Murakami, Princess of Asturias Award for Letters: «In This World, There Is Nothing so Cruel as the Desolation of Not Wanting Anything»

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Now that the winners of the Princess of Asturias Prize of 2026 are beginning to get to know each other, it is good to review what advice some of the most illustrious winners left us. For example, Haruki Murakami gave us a great teaching on the loss of motivation. Haruki Murakami was Princess of Asturias Award of Letters in 2023 thanks to an intimate literature, but he ends up playing very hard questions about identity, loss and desire. A very cl…