The 2002 novel "Kafka on the Shore" is written by this author who was born in which year?
Kafka on the Shore Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ , Umibe no Kafuka ) is a 2002 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.
Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz ] (10 August 1898 – 20 September 1939) was a Polish writer, journalist and author of over a dozen popular novels. One of his best known works, which in Poland became a byword for fortuitous careerism, was "The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma" (Polish: "Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy" , 1932). Literary historians believe that the book inspired the 1971 novel "Being There" by Jerzy Kosiński who sparked considerable controversy in the West.