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  1. 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.

  2. Aug 29, 2024 · Haruki Murakami (born January 12, 1949, Kyōto, Japan) is a Japanese novelist, short-story writer, and translator whose deeply imaginative and often ambiguous books became international bestsellers.

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  3. 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.

  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. Having just come out of the trauma of the war, Japanese society started rebuilding itself on a set of traditional values influenced by the American way ...

  5. Murakami was born on January 12, 1949, in Kyoto, Japan, though he grew up in Kobe. Murakami’s grandfather was a Buddhist priest, while his mother and father both taught Japanese literature. Murakami’s parents raised him in a household with strong cultural traditions and a reverence for the past, which he questioned early on.

  6. Haruki Murakami was born on January 12, 1949, in Kyoto, Japan. He attended Waseda University in Tokyo. Before becoming a full-time writer, Murakami owned a jazz bar.

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  8. Born in Kyoto in 1949, Haruki Murakami spent most of his youth in Kobe. Both his father and mother taught Japanese literature, igniting a passion for literature early on in their son.