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Winner of Kafka award announced.(Franz Kafka Prize)(Brief article)

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The Franz Kafka Prize, a literary award in the Czech Republic, has been presented to Japanese writer Haruki Murakami.

The presentation was made to Murakami at a ceremony held in Prague on Monday (30 October).

According to the news agency AFP, some of Murakami's works are based on reportage of traumatic recent events in Japan, such as the Kobe earthquake and a poison gas attack on the Tokyo underground. His latest book entitled Kafka on the Shore is to be published this week in the Czech Republic.

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