Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has won the 2015 Hans Christian Andersen Prize, Denmark’s leading literary honor.
Murakami will receive the award and its $71,400 purse at a ceremony in Odense, Denmark (Andersen’s hometown) in October 2016. The Economic Times has the scoop: “The jury honoured Murakami’s ‘bold mix of classic narrative, pop culture, Japanese tradition, dreamlike realism and philosophical debate.'”
Previous winners include: Paolo Coehlo, J.K. Rowling, Isabel Allende and Salman Rushdie.