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).
The Kafka Effekt The Kafka Effekt (2001) is the debut book of American author D. Harlan Wilson. It contains forty-four irreal short stories and flash fiction and has been said to combine the milieu's of Franz Kafka and William S. Burroughs. Along with Carlton Mellick III's "Satan Burger", Vincent Sakowski's "Some Things Are Better Left Unplugged", Hertzan Chimera's "Szmonhfu", Kevin L. Donihe's "Shall We Gather at the Garden?" and M.F. Korn's "Skimming the Gumbo Nuclear", "The Kafka Effekt" was among the first books jointly released by Bizarro fiction publisher Eraserhead Press.