"Sputnik Sweetheart" was first published in 1999, followed by "Kafka on the Shore" in 2002, with the English translation following in 2005. "Kafka on the Shore" won the World Fantasy Award for Novels in 2006. The English version of his novel "After Dark" was released in May 2007. It was chosen by "The New York Times" as a "notable book of the year". In late 2005, Murakami published a collection of short stories titled "Tōkyō Kitanshū", or 東京奇譚集, which translates loosely as "Mysteries of Tokyo". A collection of the English versions of twenty-four short stories, titled "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman", was published in August 2006. This collection includes both older works from the 1980s as well as some of Murakami's more recent short stories, including all five that appear in "Tōkyō Kitanshū".