Japan's Murakami withdraws from award

Updated September 16 2018 - 1:06pm, first published 1:04pm
Japanese writer Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer Haruki Murakami

Japanese author Haruki Murakami has withdrawn his nomination for an alternative to the Nobel Prize in Literature, postponed this year over a sexual misconduct scandal, saying he wanted to concentrate on his writing.

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