Haruki Murakami
Author of Kafka on the Shore
About the Author
Haruki Murakami was born on January 12, 1949 in Kyoto, Japan and studied at Tokyo's Waseda University. He opened a coffeehouse/jazz bar in the capital called Peter Cat with his wife. He became a full-time author following the publication of his first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, in 1979. He writes show more both fiction and non-fiction works. His fiction works include Norwegian Wood, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, The Strange Library, and Men Without Women. Several of his stories have been adapted for the stage and as films. His nonfiction works include What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. He has received numerous literary awards including the Franz Kafka Prize for Kafka on the Shore, the Yomiuri Prize for The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and the Jerusalem Prize. He has translated into Japanese literature written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, Truman Capote, John Irving, and Paul Theroux. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, The Seventh Man, Birthday Girl, Where I'm Likely to Find… (2023) 40 copies
Town of Cats 18 copies
Vintage Fantasy: " Alice's Adventures in Wonderland " , " The Wind-up Bird Chronicle " (Vintage Classic Twins) (2008) 14 copies
Barn Burning [short story] 11 copies
The Iceman (short story) 10 copies
Haruki Murakami 9 copies
UFO in Kushiro [short story] 7 copies
Een stoomfluit midden in de nacht 6 copies
Thailand {short story} 5 copies
2003 4 copies
The WInd Cave 4 copies
The Folklore of Our Times 4 copies
Fuwa Fuwa 4 copies
The Windup Bird and Tuesday's Women 4 copies
Landscape With Flatiron 4 copies
The Girl from Ipanema 1963/1982 4 copies
Pimeän jälkeen 3 copies
The Zoo Attack 3 copies
TOKIO BLUES (MAXI) 3 copies
Family Affair 3 copies
The Little Green Monster — Author — 3 copies
A Window 3 copies
المكتبة الغريبة 3 copies
Cream 3 copies
TV-люди 2 copies
Rare Antique COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI Haruki Murakami NOVEL 1st Edition 2nd Printing FICTION 2 copies
The Mirror (Individual Short Story) 2 copies
The Year of Spaghetti [short story] 2 copies
The Dancing Dwarf 2 copies
Independent Organ 2 copies
سامسای عاشق 2 copies
Shen Wei Zhi Ye Xiao Shuo Jia ( Xian Liang Yeng Ke Jing Zhuang Ban ) (Chinese and English Edition) (2016) 2 copies
La ballade de l'impossible (Edition spéciale) (Littérature étrangère) (French Edition) (2019) 2 copies
شکار گوسفند وحشی 2 copies
کجا ممکن است پیدایش کنم 2 copies
ليدرهوزن 2 copies
Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey 2 copies
Haruki Murakami Collection 3 Books Set (Men Without Women, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Norwegian Wood) (2020) 1 copy
After Dark Seventh Man 1 copy
Zemberekkuşu'nun Güncesi 1 copy
articles-about 1 copy
مسائل عائلية 1 copy
Portrait in Jazz 2 1 copy
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle a multi-media adaptation of Haruki Murakami's International best seller 1 copy
Хроники Заводной Птицы 1 copy
Agenda 2010 1 copy
Haruki Murakami - Asiaweek 1 copy
ノルウェイの森 - 下 1 copy
The Tale of Genji 1 copy
ノルウェイの森 - 上 1 copy
聽風的歌 1 copy
舞舞舞吧[上] 1 copy
舞舞舞吧[下] 1 copy
1973年我彈珠玩具 1 copy
人造衛星的情人[上] 1 copy
人造衛星情人[下] 1 copy
国境の南、太陽の西 1 copy
Those senior high school students teach my business (Chinese edidion) Pinyin: na xie gao zhong sheng jiao wo de shi (1995) 1 copy
The happy end of elephant workhouse (Chinese edidion) Pinyin: xiang gong chang de happy end (2000) 1 copy
حدائق موراكامي 1 copy
Racconti inediti 1 copy
해변의 카프카 1 copy
ノルウェイの森 上 1 copy
ノルウェイの森 下 1 copy
カンガルー日和 1 copy
騎士団長殺し ―第1部 顕れるイデア編(上)― 1 copy
騎士団長殺し ―第1部 顕れるイデア編(下)― 1 copy
騎士団長殺し ―第2部 遷ろうメタファー編(上)― 1 copy
騎士団長殺し ―第2部 遷ろうメタファー編(下)― 1 copy
ריקוד האדמה 1 copy
먼 북소리 1 copy
세계의 끝과 하드보일드 원더랜드 1 1 copy
세계의 끝과 하드보일드 원더랜드 2 1 copy
Zuo Pin Ji 作品集 1 copy
海边的卡夫卡 1 copy
As for running (Bangla) 1 copy
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Born To Run, Natural Born Heroes 3 Books Collection Set (2019) 1 copy
Another Way to Die 1 copy
Tany Takitany 1 copy
Princeton 1 copy
刺杀骑士团长 1 copy
大萝卜和难挑的鳄梨 1 copy
Flipperspil 1973 1 copy
První osoba jednotného čísla 1 copy
村上さんのところ コンプリート版 1 copy
ラオスにいったい何があるというんですか? 1 copy
遠い太鼓 1 copy
Sau nửa đêm 1 copy
The Kingdom That Failed 1 copy
KAFKA NE BREG 1 copy
Le sous-sol 1 copy
حدائق موراكامي 1 copy
PYLLI NORVEGJEZ 1 copy
KRONIKA E ZOGUT KURDISES 1 copy
ELEFANTI ZHDUKET 1 copy
Σε πρώτο ενικό 1 copy
El carnero Salvaje 1 copy
În noapte 1 copy
Caçando Carneiros 1 copy
අවිඥානයේ ෆැන්ටසිමය අවකාශය 1 copy
Komtuurin surma 1 copy
Ice man 1 copy
Okina Kabu, Muzukashii Abokado : Murakami Rajio 2 (Cun Shang Shou Yin Ji2: Da Wu Jing, Nan Tiao De Luo Li) (Chinese… (2012) 1 copy
Chinmoku 1 copy
The Running Novelist 1 copy
Associated Works
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone (2007) — Contributor — 547 copies
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contributor — 345 copies
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss (2000) — Contributor — 216 copies
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Contributor — 147 copies
Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2009) — Contributor — 17 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Murakami, Haruki
- Legal name
- 村上春樹
- Other names
- 村上 春樹 (むらかみ はるき)
- Birthdate
- 1949-01-12
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Japan
- Birthplace
- Kyoto, Japan
- Places of residence
- Kyoto, Japan (birth)
Tokyo, Japan
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan - Education
- Waseda University (Theater Arts)
- Occupations
- short-story writer
novelist
jazz bar owner
translator
essayist - Relationships
- Murakami, Yoko (wife)
- Organizations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Honorary member, 2014)
- Awards and honors
- Prix mondial Cinco Del Duca (2022)
America Award in Literature (2018)
Hans Christian Anderson Literary Award (2016)
Orden de las Artes y las Letras de España (2009)
Jerusalem Prize (2009)
Franz Kafka Prize (2006) (show all 17)
Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (2006)
World Fantasy Award (2006)
Kuwabara Takeo Prize (1999)
Yomiuri Prize for Literature (1995)
Tanizaki Prize (1985)
Noma Literary Prize (1982)
Gunzo Award (1979)
Kiriyama Prize (2007, declined)
International Catalunya Prize (2011)
Welt-Literaturpreis (2014)
Princess of Asturias Award (2023) - Agent
- Amanda Urban (ICM)
Members
Discussions
Murakami anyone? in Book talk (September 2023)
Printing issues in Norwegian Wood in Folio Society Devotees (December 2022)
Murakami in Folio Society Devotees (September 2022)
Science Fiction in Name that Book (January 2018)
Group Read: Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in 75 Books Challenge for 2017 (December 2017)
[Kafka on the Shore] by Haruki Murakami in 75 Books Challenge for 2017 (November 2017)
Asian Author, Unemployed young man, Goes into a Well to relax?escape? in Name that Book (September 2015)
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki Group Read in 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (November 2014)
December 2013: Haruki Murakami in Monthly Author Reads (March 2014)
1001 Group Read - April, 2013: 1Q84 in 1001 Books to read before you die (May 2013)
1Q84 Group Read in Author Theme Reads (January 2013)
1Q84 Group Read in 75 Books Challenge for 2012 (November 2012)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Group Read: Non-Spoiler Thread in 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (August 2011)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Week 1 (Spoiler) in 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (August 2011)
Haruki Murakami in Japanese Culture (June 2011)
Norwegian Wood Group Read: General Thread in 75 Books Challenge for 2010 (August 2010)
Norwegian Wood Group Read: Week Two ( Chapters 6-7 ) in 75 Books Challenge for 2010 (May 2010)
Norwegian Wood Group Read: Week 3 ( Chapters 8-11 ) in 75 Books Challenge for 2010 (May 2010)
Norwegian Wood Group Read: Week One ( Chapters 1-5 ) in 75 Books Challenge for 2010 (May 2010)
Group Read: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami in 1001 Books to read before you die (April 2010)
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