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Writers Festival: A Record-breaking With 'Life-changing' Haruki Murakami

L. P. Cabasag   |

May 19, 2015 12:02 AM EDT

This year's Auckland Writers Festival has been a record-breaking with the event becoming full of more than 60,000 seats and estimated 20 percent raised in tickets. About 150 participants have celebrated the 5-day festival and also the 15th anniversary of the event, with literary giant Haruki Murakami, Japanese author known for his bestselling novels Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.