Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami pauses during a news conference on Waseda University's new international house of literature, also known as The Haruki Murakami Library, at the said school in Japan’s capital Tokyo on Sept. 22, 2021. AP FILE PHOTO
MADRID: Bestselling Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has won this year's Princess of Asturias Award for literature, the Spanish foundation that organizes the prizes said on Wednesday.