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24-11-2006
Murakami wins the Franz Kafka Prize
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Prague, Czech Republic (P Post): Haruki Murakami has been awarded the coveted Franz Kafka Prize. […] Writing in an online translators' roundtable, Jay Rubin, Harvard University professor and longtime Murakami translator, described his first encounter with the writer's work: "I can still see the colors of the dreams escaping into the atmosphere from the unicorn skulls near the end of the book when I think back to that first reading of Hard-Boiled Wonderland, and I remember how much I regretted closing the last page and realizing I couldn't live in Murakami's world anymore."
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www.praguepost.com/articles/2006/11/22/murakami-extraordinary-ordinary.php
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