Instructions: 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.
Input: In one of this author's novels, the Factory employs Semiotecs, which oppose the System's Calcutecs. In this author's most recent novel, a protagonist's decision to use an emergency escape to avoid a traffic jam alters the nature of reality. This author Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and 1Q84 [One-Q-Eighty-Four] wrote about a Beethoven-obsessed trucker who befriends Nakata, who can talk to cats. A runaway cat sets into motion the plot of another of his novels, in which Toru Okada pursues his wife, Kumiko. For 10 points, name this contemporary Japanese author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
Output:
Literature