The 2002 novel "Kafka on the Shore" is written by this author who was born in which year?
Haruki Murakami Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹 , Murakami Haruki , born January 12, 1949) is a Japanese writer. His books and stories have been bestsellers in Japan as well as internationally, with his work being translated into 50 languages and selling millions of copies outside his native country. The critical acclaim for his fiction and non-fiction has led to numerous awards, in Japan and internationally, including the World Fantasy Award (2006) and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (2006). His oeuvre received, for example, the Franz Kafka Prize (2006) and the Jerusalem Prize (2009).
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.