A bit old this, but from the Japan Times:

Popular novelist Haruki Murakami said in a monthly magazine released Friday that a number of his manuscripts have been put up for auction on the Internet and at secondhand bookshops without his permission.

In a contribution to the April issue of the magazine Bungei Shunju, Murakami discussed details on the auctions, denouncing it as "unlawful trading of original manuscripts."

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