Haruki Murakami has won the second Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award for Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, his third collection of short stories to be published in English.The €35,000 (£23,000) prize, which is awarded to new collections published in English during the last 12 months, is the world’s richest short story prize. The prize will be shared between Murakami and his translators, Philip Gabriel and Jay Rubin.
Link to the Guardian Unlimited story.