The year in review: Influential people who died in 2023Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from an ex-con hot dog vendor to winning lucrative Kremlin contracts and heading a formidable mercenary army.
Novelist Murakami hosts Japanese ghost story reading ahead of Nobel Prize announcementsJapanese novelist Haruki Murakami has hosted a ghost story reading event in Tokyo amid growing attention before the announcement of this yearโs Nobel Prize in literature.
Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe, writer of poetic fiction, diesNobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe, whose darkly poetic novels were built from his memories during Japanโs postwar occupation and from being the parent of a disabled son, has died.