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Haruki Murakami


Japan (b.1949)

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949. He met his wife, Yoko, at university and they opened a jazz club in Tokyo called Peter Cat. The massive success of his novel Norwegian Wood (1987) made him a national celebrity. He fled Japan and did not return until 1995 when he came to regard the Kobe earthquake and the Tokyo gas attack as twin manifestations of a violence just beneath the surface of Japanese life.
 

Awards: WFA (2006)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Series
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   1. Hear the Wind Sing (1987)
   2. Pinball, 1973 (1985)
   3. A Wild Sheep Chase (1989)
   4. Dance, Dance, Dance (1993)
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1Q84
   1Q84 (2011)
   1Q84: Book 3 (2011)
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Novels
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Strange Library (2012)
   Birthday Girl (2019)
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Anthologies edited
   Birthday Stories (2004)
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Series contributed to
Vintage Minis
   Desire (2017)
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Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
Books containing stories by Haruki Murakami
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Great Japanese Stories (2024)
(Parallel Texts)
edited by
Jay Rubin

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Awards
2006 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel : Kafka on the Shore

Award nominations
2013 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : 1Q84
2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Kafka on the Shore
1999 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : The Wind-up Bird Chronicle


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