Hidetoshi Nishijima and Toko Miura star in Drive My Car. Janus Films hide caption
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Jacqueline Woodson, pictured here at the National Book Awards ceremony last month, won the young people's literature prize for her memoir in verse, Brown Girl Dreaming. Robin Platzer/Twin Images/AP hide caption
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Haruki Murakami's latest novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, was released in English in 2014. Elena Seibert/Knopf hide caption
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Publicity-shy Japanese author Haruki Murakami arrives to give a public lecture in Kyoto in May 2013. Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Fans dressed as stormtroopers from Star Wars attend this year's Comic-Con event in San Diego. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images hide caption
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Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes. PR Newswire via AP hide caption
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American poet Emily Dickinson, circa 1850. Three Lions/Getty Images hide caption
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Haruki Murakami is also the author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Norwegian Wood and Kafka on the Shore. Elena Seibert/Knopf hide caption
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Books in an Amazon warehouse in Bad Hersfeld, Germany. Jens-Ulrich Koch/AFP/Getty Images hide caption