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.
Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( ; Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков , ] , also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; (April 22nd, 1899 — July 2nd, 1977) was a Russian-American novelist and entomologist. His first nine novels were in Russian, but he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose.