"I think novels and movies have always had an indissoluble bond." Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Prize winner and Chinese writer, once said.
The latest winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature, Austrian writer Peter Handeck, also has an indissoluble bond with movies, and has participated in the screenwriting of 14 film and television works. The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded for more than a hundred years. The excellent works of these outstanding writers have all provided high-quality nutrition to the world film industry, and there are many Nobel Prize winners who have devoted themselves to the world of light and shadow like Peter Handke to create their dreams .
2019 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner:
Peter Handeck (Austria)
Official award:
His works with both originality and influence of language explore the periphery and particularity of human experience.
masterpieces:
, "Surging the Audience", "Casper", "Left-Handed Woman"
Peter Handke can be said to be a real filmmaker. In his resume, he has served as the screenwriter of 14 film and television works and four movies. Director, starring in a movie. Among them, Peter Handeck, as a screenwriter, has worked with German director Wim Wenders of "One of the Four New German Films" eight times, and the two together created the film history classic "Under the Sky of Berlin" in 1987. "Peter Handker also played a small role in the movie. The film was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 40th Cannes Film Festival and won the best director award.
As a director, Peter Handke is still doing well. In 1985, his feature film debut "Left-Handed Woman" was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 31st Cannes International Film Festival; in 1992, the film "Absent" was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 49th Venice International Film Festival, it is worth mentioning Yes, the Golden Lion Award was won by Zhang Yimou's "A Lawsuit Against Qiu Ju".
Winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature:
Olga Tokarchuk (Poland)
Official award:
Her narrative imagination, full of encyclopedic enthusiasm, makes her work cross borders, Into one faction.
masterpieces:
, "Flights", "Times of the Ancients and Others"
, "Let Your Plowshare Crush the Bones of the Dead"
Olga Tokarchuk is one of the most influential novelists in contemporary Poland. He has won the "Nicer Prize" Jury Award, the highest honor of Polish literature twice, and the "Nicer Prize" Readers' Choice Award four times.
In 2016, she collaborated with the Polish female director Agneska Holland in the film "The Soil of Bone", adapted from her novel "Let Your Plowshare Crush the Bones of the Dead". The film was nominated for the No. The main competition unit of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival won the Alfred Bauer Silver Bear Award (in memory of the founder of the Berlin Film Festival, Alfred Bauer, to reward film innovation).
2017 Nobel Prize Winner:
Kazuo Ishiguro (Japanese-British)
Official award:
His novels are full of passion, and under the illusion that we are connected to the world, he reveals an abyss.
masterpieces:
"Light Scenery of Mountains", "Ukiyo Painter", "Long Days Will End"
Ishiguro Kazuo is a Japanese-British novelist who was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and his family moved to the UK. He and two other Indian writers, Rushdie and Naipaul, are known as the "three British literary immigrants", and now only Rushdie has not won the Nobel Prize.
Ishiguro Kazuo's many works have been adapted into film and television works, and he will personally serve or participate in screenwriting. "Don't Let Me Go" was adapted into a movie and a TV series in 2010 and 2016; the 2005 "Countess" was adapted from the novel of the same name, and the story was set in Shanghai in 1936; in 1993, "Farewell to Love "Adapted from the novel "The Long Day Is Ending", directed by James Ivory, the film won the 66th Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Best art direction, best costume design, best original soundtrack nominated for 8 awards, and the biggest winner of the year was Steven Spielberg and his "Schindler's List."
2012 Nobel Prize in Literature Winner:
Mo Yan (China)
Official award:
His magical realism works integrate folk tales, history and modernity.
masterpieces:
, "Red Sorghum", "Breast Fatty Butt", "Life and Death Fatigue", "Frog"
Mo Yan has participated in the creation of 12 film and television screenplays. His novels have also been favored by Chinese directors and have been repeatedly moved to the big screen. In 1987, "Red Sorghum" was directed by Zhang Yimou and won the Golden Bear Award for Best Picture at the 38th Berlin Film Festival; in 2003, the film directed by Huo Jianqi was adapted from "White Dog Swing" and won the 16th Tokyo International Film Festival. Festival Best Picture Award and Best Male Artist Award.
In addition, "The Sun Has Ears" (2003) directed by Hong Kong director Yan Hao is based on Mo Yan's novel "Auntie's Red Silk". However, Mo Yan himself is not satisfied with the film. Although he participated in the screenwriting work at the beginning, he was The director chose not to quit. In 2000, Zhang Yimou's "Happy Times", which was adapted from Mo Yan's novella "The Master Is Getting Humorous", also surprised Mo Yan because of the big difference from the novel. There is another one that Mo Yan himself hasn't seen, which is "White Cotton" filmed by Taiwanese director Li Youqiao.
2005 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner:
Harold Pinter (UK)
Official award:
His play discovered the thrilling place under the cover of daily nonsense and forcibly opened the room closed by the oppressor.
masterpieces:
, "gnomes", "gatekeepers", and "servants"
Harold Pinter's contributions to world art are not limited to the field of literature. His works include stage plays, radio, television and film works, which are the most contemporary British contemporary works. One of the representative dramatists, and more importantly, he has made important contributions to drama once again becoming the main literary form in the British literary world. "The Gatekeeper" and "The Journey of Wine" are all his representative drama works.
Harold Pinter is an author, director and performer. During his forty years of artistic career, he has created more than 50 stage plays, TV series, radio plays and movie scripts, including more than 20 movie scripts. At the same time, he has participated in 22 film and television works, directed 6 films, and won two Oscar nominations and seven British Film Academy Awards nominations. Harold Pinter continued to create until a year before his death. In 2007, when Jude Law, the star of the movie "Footprints," invited him to write the script, Harold Pinter happily agreed. Won a Golden Lion nomination for director Kenneth Branagh.
1982 Nobel Prize winner:
Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia)
Official award:
Because of the richly structured imaginary world of his novel, it blends magic and reality, reflecting Life contradictions on an entire continent.
masterpieces:
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" "The Decline of Parents"
"Love in the Time of Cholera"
García Márquez has a deep connection with film. He has served as the chairman of the Latin American New Film Foundation and has written too much He also personally participated in the adaptation of important works such as "Love in the Time of Cholera", "Nobody Writes a Letter to the Colonel", and "A Publicized Murder Case".
However, the only regret is that Garcia Márquez did not have the opportunity to see the film and television version of his favorite "Hundred Years of Solitude". There is a saying that the movie "One Hundred Years of Solitude", if you miss Akira Kurosawa, you will be regretful forever. It is said that Marquez once said that only the famous Japanese director Akira Kurosawa can make "One Hundred Years of Solitude" into a movie. But with the death of Akira Kurosawa and Marquez's prevention, the film adaptation of "A Hundred Years of Solitude" has been shelved.
And just this year, Netflix, after some hard work, reached an agreement with Marquez’s two sons Rodrigo and Gonzalo to adapt "A Hundred Years of Solitude" into a Spanish TV series, and the two will serve as producers themselves. .
1968 Nobel Prize in Literature Winner:
Kawabata Yasunari (Japan)
Official award:
is extraordinary due to his superb narrative worksHis keenness shows the spiritual characteristics of the Japanese.
Representative works:
"The Dancing Girl of Izu", "Snow Country", "A Thousand Cranes"
Kawabata Yasunari is the Nobel Prize winner with the largest number of single works on the big screen, and his representative work "The Dancing Girl of Izu" from 1933 He was put on the big screen six times, and was adapted and filmed five times before Kawabata Yasunari's death (died on April 16, 1972).
The famous Japanese actress Momoe Yamaguchi starred in the 1974 version of "The Dancing Girl of Izu" as the heroine Kaunko, which is also one of the most well-known screen images for Chinese audiences. In addition, "Ancient Capital", which is called "the last movement of Yamaguchi Momoe's acting career", is also based on Kawabata Yasunari's novel of the same name. The novel was created in 1961 and won Nobel Literature together with "Snow Country" and "A Thousand Cranes" in 1968. prize. "Ancient Capital" is the last film played by Yamaguchi Baihui.
1954 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner:
Ernest Hemingway (USA)
Official award:
Because he is proficient in narrative art, it is prominent in his recent work "The Old Man and the Sea", but also because of his defense A glorious speech of noble human values.
masterpieces:
"The Old Man and the Sea", "Farewell, Weapon", "Who Is the Bell Toll"
Hemingway has an inseparable relationship with movies. His works have been adapted and put on the big screen several times, including "The Old Man and the Sea" three times, "The Sun Also Rises" twice, and "Farewell, Weapon" twice. At the same time, Hemingway also served as a screenwriter for a long time before his death. According to records, he served as a screenwriter for 23 works and also appeared in two films with friendship.
It’s just that, except for the adaptation of his work "The Rich and the No Rich", which was written by him and another Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner, none of the original works are based on Hemingway’s classics. The film adaptations can become classics. The 1932 version of "Farewell to Weapon" was greatly revised and was evaluated by Hemingway as "like pee in a beer glass". And "The Rich and the No Rich" is just a second-rate work by Hemingway.
