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      • Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹, Murakami Haruki, born January 12, 1949) is a Japanese writer.
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  2. Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹, Murakami Haruki, born January 12, 1949 [1]) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages [2] and having sold millions of copies outside Japan.

  3. Aug 29, 2024 · Haruki Murakami is a Japanese novelist, short-story writer, and translator whose deeply imaginative and often ambiguous books became international bestsellers. His notable novels included Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and 1Q84. Learn more about Murakami’s life and work.

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  4. May 14, 2024 · Haruki Murakami was born in 1949, during a time when Japan was still under US occupation. At the time of his birth, Japan was still recovering from the nuclear strikes in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

  5. Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949. He grew up in Kobe and then moved to Tokyo, where he attended Waseda University. After college, Murakami opened a small jazz bar, which he and his wife ran for seven years. His first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won the Gunzou Literature Prize for budding writers in 1979.

  6. At age 62, three decades into his career, Murakami has established himself as the unofficial laureate of Japan — arguably its chief imaginative ambassador, in any medium, to the world: the...

  7. Apr 6, 2021 · In what feels like a classic example of the anxiety of influence, Murakami has long pushed back against the weight of Kenzaburo Oe, whose 1964 book “ A Personal Matter ” exemplified the...

  8. Jan 11, 2024 · Japanese author Haruki Murakami has been considered a favorite for the Nobel Prize in literature. His novels, which often have surrealistic traits, have made him one of the most successful...