For Those Who Think Short Stories Don't Pay

In Cork last night, Japanese author Haruki Murakami was presented with the 2006 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award for his recently published collection, 'Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman'.

Murakami was chosen as winner of the €35,000 literary prize by a five-member jury chaired by Cork-based writer Tom McCarthy, who was programme director of Cork 2005.