Murakami didn’t, but a Norwegian would

What we talk about when we talk about Haruki Murakami’s elusive Nobel Prize

Haute couture for “Harukists.”

The novelist Haruki Murakami has been in the running for a Nobel Prize in literature for well over a decade. Whether deserved or not is a wholly subjective topic, but he was again passed over this year. On Thursday, the committee chose in favor of Jon Fosse, a Norwegian whose “innovative plays and prose… give voice to the u…