Haruki Murakami Wins Kiriyama Award
Haruki Murakami's collection of short stories, Blind Willow, Weeping Woman, has been awarded the Kiriyama Prize. The award was announced March 27 by Pacific Rim Voices, a nonprofit organization "dedicated to celebrating literature that contributes to greater understanding of and among the peoples and nations of the Pacific Rim and South Asia." Previous winners of the prize include Michael Ondaatje and Rohinton Mistry.
