Murakami fans disappointed at Nobel announcement

TOKYO, Japan - Fans of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, who had awaited the announcement by the Swedish Academy on the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature while holding a joint reading session at a coffee house in Tokyo's Suginami Ward, look disappointed after learning on Oct. 11, 2012 that Murakami had not been chosen for the prestigious award.

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