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.
Mircea Ivănescu Mircea Ivanescu (] ; March 26, 1931 – July 21, 2011) was a Romanian poet, writer and translator, and a forerunner of Romanian postmodernism, which was characteristic of the 1980s. His translations from global literature into Romanian include James Joyce, Franz Kafka, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.