Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami is an internationally best-selling Japanese author. He is the author of more than a dozen books including Norwegian Wood (1987), Kafka on the Shore (2002), 1Q84 (2011), and Men Without Women (2017). His books have sold millions of copies in more than fifty languages around the world.
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The first novel by Murakami was published in 1979, Hear the Wind Sing. The novel won the Gunzou Literature Prize in 1979. Murakami wrote Pinball, 1973 (1980) as a sequel to Hear the Wind Sing. A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) rounded out what became known as the Trilogy of the Rat.

Murakami is also the author of novels Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Dance Dance Dance (1998), South of the Border (1992), West of the Sun (1992), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994), Sputnik Sweetheart (1999), After Dark (2004), and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (2013).

In addition to his novels, Murakami is also the author of short stories. Listen to Murakami’s short stories in Blind Willow: Sleeping Woman volumes 1 and 2, and in The Elephant Vanishes narrated by John Chancer.

Murakami is the recipient of many awards and honours including the World Fantasy Award for Kafka on the Shore, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Franz Kafka Prize. Murakami holds an honorary doctorate of letters from University of Liege, as well as from Princeton University, and from Tufts University.

Murakami studied at Waseda University. After graduating, and before publishing his first novel, Murakami and his wife ran a jazz bar. He counts authors Raymond Chandler, Kurt Vonnegut, and Richard Brautigan among his writerly influences. Haruki Murakami was born 12 January 1949 in Kyoto, Japan.

Haruki Murakami Audiobooks

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