由野间奉公会主办的第42届野间文艺奖最近揭晓。井上靖以长篇历史小说《孔子》获得1989年此项奖,井上靖获得此奖已是第二次了,第一次是1961年以《死水湾日记》获奖。为了创作《孔子》这部历史小说,井上靖花了近20年时间反复进行构思。他从60岁左右开始认真阅读《论语》,并大量翻阅和研究了春秋战国时代的历史文献。1981年, The 42nd Wild Art Award, sponsored by the Wild Council, was recently unveiled. Inoue Yasushi to long historical novel “Confucius” won the 1989 prize, Inoue won this award is the second time, the first time in 1961 to “Dead Bay Diary” award-winning. In order to create “Confucius” this historical novel, Jing Jing spent nearly 20 years time and time again conceived. He began to read “The Analects of Confucius” carefully from the age of 60 and read and studied a large number of historical documents in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In 1981,