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Murakami didn’t, but a Norwegian would

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

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Oct 06, 2023
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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…

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