Murakami Haruki -- who will pick up his not-quite-the-Nobel Welt-Literaturpreis (laudatio: Clemens J. Setz !) on Friday -- is profiled by Tim Martin in The Telegraph:
"In America, or in Europe," he says apologetically, "people say my writing is kind of postmodernism, or magical realism. But I'm not interested in those kind of things. I'm not a great reader of Thomas Pynchon or so-called postmodernist writers."The Strange Library is due out in almost exactly four weeks.