Haruki Murakami awarded Franz Kafka literary prize
Date: October 31, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The internationally popular Japanese author Haruki Murakami has received the Franz Kafka literary prize in Prague. The $10,000 prize was given to the writer for his worldwide appeal that the organizers compared with that of Kafka.
Murakami has often referred to Kafka as his favourite author. Murakami’s 2002 novel Kafka on the Shore (pictured here) even borrows the name of the title character from the Czech writer himself.
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Filed under Asian literature, Fiction, Lifetime awards, Novels, Winners, World literature.
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