In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
Q: The title of this writers novel Pinball, 1973 was a play on a title by Kenzaburo Oe and it introduced J, a bar owner who also appeared in A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance, Dance, Dance. He was himself the owner of a jazz bar called Peter Cat, but the most important character in his early novels was called Rat. In the 1980s, he wrote Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and Norwegian Wood, but he is more famous for a novel about a lazy man named Toru Okada whose cat disappears. For ten points, identify this Japanese author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
A:
Literature