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Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

Murakami in 2009, for his Jerusalem Prize.Born January 12, 1949 (age 65)

Kyoto, JapanOccupation Novelist, short-story writer,

essayist, translatorNationality JapanGenre Fiction, surrealism, magical

realism, science fiction,Bildungsroman, picaresque,realism

Notableworks

A Wild Sheep Chase (1982),Norwegian Wood (1987), TheWind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994-1995), Kafka on the Shore(2002), 1Q84 (20092010)

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Haruki Murakami ( Murakami Haruki?, born January 12,1949) is a contemporary Japanese writer. Murakami has been translatedinto 50 languages[1] and his best-selling books have sold millions[2] ofcopies.

His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered critical acclaim andnumerous awards, both in Japan and internationally, including the WorldFantasy Award (2006) and the Frank O'Connor International Short StoryAward (2006), while his oeuvre garnered among others the Franz KafkaPrize (2006) and the Jerusalem Prize (2009). Murakami's most notableworks include A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), Norwegian Wood (1987),The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994-1995), Kafka on the Shore (2002),and 1Q84 (20092010). He has also translated a number of Englishworks into Japanese, from Raymond Carver to J. D. Salinger.

Murakami's fiction, often criticized by Japan's literary establishment asun-Japanese, was influenced by Western writers from Chandler toVonnegut by way of Brautigan. It is frequently surrealistic andmelancholic or fatalistic, marked by a Kafkaesque rendition of the"recurrent themes of alienation and loneliness"[3] he weaves into hisnarratives. He is also considered an important figure in postmodernliterature. Steven Poole of The Guardian praised Murakami as "amongthe world's greatest living novelists" for his works and achievements.[4]

Contents [hide] 1 Biography

1.1 Trilogy of the Rat1.2 Wider recognition1.3 From "detachment" to "commitment"1.4 Since 2000

2 Recognition3 Films and other adaptations4 Writing style5 Personal life6 Bibliography

6.1 Novels6.2 Short stories6.3 Essays and nonfiction6.4 Translations6.5 Translators of Murakami's works

7 See also8 References9 Further reading10 External links

Biography [edit]Murakami was born in Japan during the postWorld War II baby boom. Although born in Kyoto, he spent his youth inShukugawa (Nishinomiya), Ashiya and Kobe.[5][6] His father was the son of a Buddhist priest,[7] and his mother thedaughter of an Osaka merchant.[8] Both taught Japanese literature.[9]

Since childhood, Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western music and literature.He grew up reading a wide range of works by American writers, such as Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Brautigan and JackKerouac. These Western influences distinguish Murakami from other Japanese writers.[10]

Murakami studied drama at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he met his wife, Yoko. His first job was at a recordstore, much like Toru Watanabe, the narrator of Norwegian Wood. Shortly before finishing his studies, Murakami

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Murakami in 2005, giving a lectureat MIT.

opened a coffeehouse and jazz bar, the Peter Cat, in Kokubunji, Tokyo, which he ran with his wife[11] from 1974 to1981[12]again, not unlike the protagonist in his later novel South of the Border, West of the Sun.

Many of his novels have themes and titles that invoke classical music, such as the three books making up The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: The Thieving Magpie (after Rossini's opera), Bird as Prophet (after a piano piece by RobertSchumann usually known in English as The Prophet Bird), and The Bird-Catcher (a character in Mozart's opera TheMagic Flute). Some of his novels take their titles from songs: Dance, Dance, Dance (after The Dells' 1957 B-sidesong,[13][14] although it is often thought it was titled after the Beach Boys' 1964 tune), Norwegian Wood (after TheBeatles' song) and South of the Border, West of the Sun (after the song "South of the Border").[15]

Murakami is a serious marathon runner and triathlon enthusiast, though he did not start running until he was 33 yearsold. On June 23, 1996, he completed his first ultramarathon, a 100-kilometer race around Lake Saroma in Hokkaido,Japan.[16] He discusses his relationship with running in his 2008 memoir What I Talk About When I Talk AboutRunning.[17]

Trilogy of the Rat [edit]

Murakami began writing fiction when he was 29.[18] "Before that", he said, "I didn't write anything. I was just one ofthose ordinary people. I was running a jazz club, and I didn't create anything at all."[19] He was inspired to write his firstnovel, Hear the Wind Sing (1979), while watching a baseball game.[20] In 1978, Murakami was in Jingu Stadiumwatching a game between the Yakult Swallows and the Hiroshima Carp when Dave Hilton, an American, came to bat.According to an oft-repeated story, in the instant that Hilton hit a double, Murakami suddenly realized that he couldwrite a novel.[21] He went home and began writing that night. Murakami worked on Hear the Wind Sing for severalmonths in very brief stretches after working days at the bar. He completed the novel and sent it to the only literarycontest that would accept a work of that length, winning first prize.

Murakami's initial success with Hear the Wind Sing encouraged him to continue writing. A year later, he published asequel, Pinball, 1973. In 1982, he published A Wild Sheep Chase, a critical success. Hear the Wind Sing, Pinball,1973, and A Wild Sheep Chase form the Trilogy of the Rat (a sequel, Dance, Dance, Dance, was written later but isnot considered part of the series), centered on the same unnamed narrator and his friend, "the Rat." The first twonovels are unpublished in English translation outside of Japan, where an English edition, translated by AlfredBirnbaum with extensive notes, was published by Kodansha as part of a series intended for Japanese students ofEnglish. Murakami considers his first two novels to be "weak",[citation needed] and has not been eager to have themtranslated into English.[22] A Wild Sheep Chase, he says, was "the first book where I could feel a kind of sensation,the joy of telling a story. When you read a good story, you just keep reading. When I write a good story, I just keepwriting."[citation needed]

Wider recognition [edit]In 1985, Murakami wrote Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World,a dream-like fantasy that took the magical elements of his work to a newextreme. Murakami achieved a major breakthrough and national recognition in1987 with the publication of Norwegian Wood, a nostalgic story of loss andsexuality. It sold millions of copies among Japanese youths, making Murakamia literary superstar in his native country. The book was printed in twoseparate volumes, so that the number of books sold actually doubled,creating the million-copy bestseller hype. One book had a green cover, theother one red.[4]

In 1986, Murakami left Japan, traveled throughout Europe, and settled in theUnited States. He was a writing fellow at Princeton University in Princeton, NewJersey, Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[6][23]

During this time he wrote South of the Border, West of the Sun and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.[6]

From "detachment" to "commitment" [edit]In 1995, he published The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, a novel that fuses the realistic and fantastic, and containselements of physical violence. It is also more socially conscious than his previous work, dealing in part with the difficulttopic of war crimes in Manchukuo (Northeast China). The novel won the Yomiuri Prize, awarded by one of his harshestformer critics, Kenzaburo Oe, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994.[24]

The processing of collective trauma soon became an important theme in Murakami's writing, which had previouslybeen more personal in nature. After finishing The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami returned to Japan in theaftermath of the Kobe earthquake and the Aum Shinrikyo gas attack. He came to terms with these events with his firstwork of non-fiction, Underground, and the short story collection after the quake. Underground consists largely ofinterviews of victims of the gas attacks in the Tokyo subway system.

Murakami himself mentions that he changed his position from one of "detachment" to one of "commitment" after

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staying in the USA in 1991. "His early books, he said, originated in an individual darkness, while his later works tapinto the darkness found in society and history."[3]

English translations of many of his short stories written between 1983 and 1990 have been collected in The ElephantVanishes. Murakami has also translated many of the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, Truman Capote,John Irving, and Paul Theroux, among others, into Japanese.[6]

Murakami took an active role in translation of his work into English, encouraging "adaptations" of his texts to Americanreality rather than direct translation. Some of his works which appeared in German turned out to be translations fromEnglish rather than from Japanese (South of the Border, West of the Sun, 2000; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,2000s), encouraged by Murakami himself. Both were later translated from Japanese.[25]

Since 2000 [edit]Sputnik Sweetheart was first published in 1999, followed by Kafka on the Shore in 2002, with the English translationfollowing in 2005. Kafka on the Shore won the World Fantasy Award for Novels in 2006.[26] The English version of hisnovel After Dark was released in May 2007. It was chosen by the New York Times as a "notable book of the year". Inlate 2005, Murakami published a collection of short stories titled Tky Kitansh, or , which translatesloosely as "Mysteries of Tokyo." A collection of the English versions of twenty-four short stories, titled Blind Willow,Sleeping Woman, was published in August 2006. This collection includes both older works from the 1980s as well assome of Murakami's more recent short stories, including all five that appear in Tky Kitansh.

In 2002, Murakami published the anthology Birthday Stories, which collects short stories on the theme of birthdays.The collection includes work by Russell Banks, Ethan Canin, Raymond Carver, David Foster Wallace, Denis Johnson,Claire Keegan, Andrea Lee, Daniel Lyons, Lynda Sexson, Paul Theroux, and William Trevor, as well as a story byMurakami himself. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, containing tales about his experience as amarathon runner and a triathlete, was published in Japan in 2007,[27] with English translations released in the U.K.and the U.S. in 2008. The title is a play on that of Raymond Carver's short story collection, What We Talk AboutWhen We Talk About Love.[28]

Shinchosha Publishing published Murakami's novel 1Q84 in Japan on May 29, 2009. 1Q84 is pronounced as 'ichi kyhachi yon', the same as 1984, as 9 is also pronounced as 'ky' in Japanese.[29] The book was longlisted for the ManAsian Literary Prize in 2011. However, after the anti-Japanese demonstrations, in China, in 2012, Murakami's bookswere removed from sale there, along with those of other Japanese authors.[30][31] Murakami criticized the China-Japan political territorial dispute, characterizing the overwrought nationalistic response as "cheap liquor" whichpoliticians were giving to the public.[32] In February 2013, he announced the publication of his first novel in threeyears, set for April 2013; aside from the date of release, the announcement was intentionally vague.[33]

At an October 2013 symposium held at the University of Hawaii,[34] associate professor of Japanese Nobuko Ochneropined "there were many descriptions of traveling in a parallel world as well as characters who have some connectionto shamanism"[35] in Murakami's works.

Recognition [edit]1982 Noma Literary Prize for A Wild Sheep Chase.

1985 Tanizaki Prize for Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.

1995 Yomiuri Prize for The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

2006 World Fantasy Award for Kafka on the Shore.

In 2006, Murakami became the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize.[36]

In September 2007, he received an honorary doctorate of Letters from the University of Lige,[37] one from PrincetonUniversity in June 2008,[38] and one from Tufts University[39] in May 2014.

Murakami was awarded the 2007 Kiriyama Prize for Fiction for his collection of short stories Blind Willow, SleepingWoman, but according to the Kiriyama Official Website, Murakami "declined to accept the award for reasons ofpersonal principle".[40]

In January 2009 Murakami received the Jerusalem Prize, a biennial literary award given to writers whose work dealswith themes of human freedom, society, politics, and government. There were protests in Japan and elsewhereagainst his attending the February award ceremony in Israel, including threats to boycott his work as a responseagainst Israel's recent bombing of Gaza. Murakami chose to attend the ceremony, but gave a speech to the gatheredIsraeli dignitaries harshly criticizing Israeli policies.[41] Murakami said, "Each of us possesses a tangible living soul.The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us."[42]

In 2011, Murakami donated his 80,000 winnings from the International Catalunya Prize (from the Generalitat ofCatalunya) to the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and to those affected by the Fukushima nucleardisaster. Accepting the award, he said in his speech that the situation at the Fukushima plant was "the second majornuclear disaster that the Japanese people have experienced... however, this time it was not a bomb being dropped



upon us, but a mistake committed by our very own hands." According to Murakami, the Japanese people should haverejected nuclear power after having "learned through the sacrifice of the hibakusha just how badly radiation leavesscars on the world and human wellbeing".[43]

In recent years, Haruki Murakami has often been mentioned as a possible recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.[44]

Nonetheless, since all nomination records are sealed for 50 years from the awarding of the prize, it is purespeculation.[45] When asked about the possibility of being awarded the Nobel Prize, Murakami responded with a laughsaying "No, I don't want prizes. That means you're finished."[44]

Films and other adaptations [edit]Murakami's first novel Hear the Wind Sing (Kaze no uta o kike) was adapted by Japanese director Kazuki mori. Thefilm was released in 1981 and distributed by Art Theatre Guild.[46] Naoto Yamakawa directed two short films Attack onthe Bakery (released in 1982) and A Girl, She is 100 Percent (released in 1983), based on Murakami's short stories"The Second Bakery Attack" and "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" respectively.[47]

Japanese director Jun Ichikawa adapted Murakami's short story "Tony Takitani" into a 75-minute feature.[48] The filmplayed at various film festivals and was released in New York and Los Angeles on July 29, 2005. The original shortstory, translated into English by Jay Rubin, is available in the April 15, 2002 issue of The New Yorker, as a stand-alone book published by Cloverfield Press, and part of Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Knopf. In 1998, the Germanfilm Der Eisbaer (Polar Bear), written and directed by Granz Henman, used elements of Murakami's short story "TheSecond Bakery Attack" in three intersecting story lines. "The Second Bakery Attack" was also adapted as a short filmin 2010,[49] directed by Carlos Cuaron, starring Kirsten Dunst.

Murakami's work was also adapted for the stage in a 2003 play entitled The Elephant Vanishes, co-produced byBritain's Complicite company and Japan's Setagaya Public Theatre. The production, directed by Simon McBurney,adapted three of Murakami's short stories and received acclaim for its unique blending of multimedia (video, music,and innovative sound design) with actor-driven physical theater (mime, dance, and even acrobatic wire work).[50] Ontour, the play was performed in Japanese, with supertitle translations for European and American audiences.

Two stories from Murakami's book after the quake"Honey Pie" and "Superfrog Saves Tokyo"have been adaptedfor the stage and directed by Frank Galati. Entitled after the quake, the play was first performed at the SteppenwolfTheatre Company in association with La Jolla Playhouse, and opened on October 12, 2007, at Berkeley RepertoryTheatre.[51] In 2008, Galati also adapted and directed a theatrical version of Kafka on the Shore, which first ran atChicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company from September to November.[52]

On Max Richter's 2006 album Songs from Before, Robert Wyatt reads passages from Murakami's novels. In 2007,Robert Logevall adapted "All God's Children Can Dance" into a film, with a soundtrack composed by American jamband Sound Tribe Sector 9. In 2008, Tom Flint adapted "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful AprilMorning" into a short film. The film was screened at the 2008 CON-CAN Movie Festival. The film was viewed, voted,and commented upon as part of the audience award for the movie festival.[53]

It was announced in July 2008 that French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung would direct an adaptation ofMurakami's novel, Norwegian Wood.[54] The film was released in Japan on December 11, 2010.[55]

In 2010, Stephen Earnhart adapted The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle into a 2-hour multimedia stage presentation. Theshow opened January 12, 2010, as part of the Public Theater's "Under the Radar" festival at the Ohio Theater in NewYork City,[56] presented in association with The Asia Society and the Baryshnikov Arts Center. The show had its worldpremiere at the Edinburgh International Festival on August 21, 2011.[57] The presentation incorporates live actors,video projection, traditional Japanese puppetry, and immersive soundscapes to render the surreal landscape of theoriginal work.

Each short story in Murakami's after the quake collection was adapted into a six-song EP entitled .DC: JPN (after thequake 2011) in March 2011 following the 2011 Thoku earthquake and tsunami to help benefit the relief efforts bymusician Dre Carlan.[58]

Writing style [edit]This section possibly contains original research. Please improve it byverifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting onlyof original research should be removed. (June 2014)

As a writer Haruki Murakami was influenced by Western literalists, which distinguished him from his fellow Japanesecounterparts. Not only exclusive to Western influence, Murakami consistently aimed to provide a sense of Japaneseheritage throughout his books. Most of his works are written in the firstperson point of view to provide the reader anunderstanding of what the main protagonist encounters. He states that because the family plays a significant rolethroughout traditional Japanese literature, by portraying the main character as an independent individual he becomesa man who values freedom and solitude over intimacy. Also notable is Murakamis style of humor in his writing. Suchscenarios are evident in the 2000 collection of short stories, after the quake. In "Superfrog Saves Tokyo", one story



from the collection, the main protagonist is confronted with a 6 foot tall frog that talks about the destruction of Tokyoover a cup of tea. While retaining a serious tone Murakami feels the reader should be entertained once theseriousness of a subject has been addressed. Another notable feature of Murakamis stories is the comments thatcome from the main characters as to how strange the story presents itself. Murakami explains that his charactersexperience what he experiences as he writes, which could be compared to a movie set where the walls and props areall fake.

Personal life [edit]After receiving the Gunzo Award for his 1979 literary work Hear the Wind Sing, Murakami did not aspire to meet otherwriters. Aside from Princetons Mary Morris who he briefly mentions in his memoir What I Talk About When I TalkAbout Running, alongside Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison, Murakami was never a part of a community ofwriters, his reason being that he was a loner and was never fond of groups, schools, and literary circles. Whenworking on a book, Murakami states that he relies on his wife, who is always his first reader. While he neveracquainted himself with many writers, Murakami enjoyed the works of Ryu Murakami and Banana Yoshimoto.

Haruki Murakami is a fan of crime novels. During his high school days while living in Kobe, he would buy paperbacksfrom second hand book stores and learned to read English. The first book that he read in English was The Name isArcher, written by Ross Macdonald in 1955. Other writers he was interested in included Leo Tolstoy and FyodorDostoyevsky.

Murakami also has a passion for listening to music, especially classical and jazz. When he was around the age of 14he began to develop an interest in jazz. He would later open the Peter Cat, a coffeehouse and jazz bar. Murakami hassaid that music, like writing, is a mental journey. At one time he aspired to be a musician, but because he could notplay instruments well he decided to become a writer instead.

Bibliography [edit]This is an incomplete bibliography as not all works published by Murakami in Japanese have been translated intoEnglish.[59] Kanji titles are given with Hepburn romanization. (Original titles entirely in transcribed English are given as"katakana / romaji = English".)

Novels [edit]

Original publication English publication

Title Year Title Year

Kaze no uta o kike

1979 Hear the Wind Sing 1987

19731973-nen no pinbru

1980 Pinball, 1973 1985

Hitsuji o meguru bken

1982 A Wild Sheep Chase 1989

Sekai no owari to Hdo-boirudo Wandrando= Sekai no owari & Hard-boiled Wonderland

1985Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of theWorld

1991

Noruwei no mori

1987 Norwegian Wood 2000

Dansu dansu dansu = Dance dance dance

1988 Dance Dance Dance 1994

Kokky no minami, taiy no nishi

1992 South of the Border, West of the Sun 2000

Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru

19941995

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 1997

Suptoniku no koibito

1999 Sputnik Sweetheart 2001

Umibe no Kafuka

2002 Kafka on the Shore 2005

Afut dku = After dark

2004 After Dark 2007

1Q84Ichi-ky-hachi-yon

20092010

1Q84 2011



Shikisai o motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to, Kare noJunrei no Toshi

2013Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years ofPilgrimage

2014

Short stories [edit]Most short stories have been collected in four volumes (three translated):


Title Year Title Year

Z no shmetsu

(2005)[60]The Elephant Vanishes(17 stories, 19801991)

1993

Kami no kodomo-tachi wa mina odoru

2000After the quake(6 stories, 19992000)

2002

Mekurayanagi to nemuru onna

(2009)[61]Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman(24 stories, 19802005)

2006

Onna no inai otokotachi[62]

2014Men Without Women(6 stories, 20132014)

These stories were originally published individually in various magazines:


Year Title Title Appears in

1980

Chgoku-yuki no sur bto

A Slow Boat to ChinaTheElephantVanishes

Binb na obasan no hanashi

A 'Poor Aunt' Story (The New Yorker, December 3,2001)

Blind Willow,SleepingWoman

1981

Ny Yku tank no higeki

New York Mining Disaster (The New Yorker,January 11, 1999)

Supaget no toshi ni

The Year of Spaghetti (The New Yorker, November21, 2005)

100Shigatsu no aru hareta asa ni 100-paasento no onna no ko ni deau koto nitsuite

On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One BeautifulApril Morning

TheElephantVanishes

Kaitsuburi

Dabchick Blind Willow,SleepingWoman

Kangar biyoriA Perfect Day for Kangaroos

Kangar tsshin

The Kangaroo Communiqu TheElephantVanishes1982

Gogo no saigo no shibafu

The Last Lawn of the Afternoon

1983

Kagami

The Mirror


Tongari-yaki no seisui

The Rise and Fall of Sharpie Cakes

Hotaru

Firefly

Naya o yaku

Barn Burning (The New Yorker, November 2, 1992)TheElephantVanishes

1984

(within )Kani (within Yakyj)

Crabs [2003][63]


1979to 1979

Nausea 1979



1984Hantingu naifu = Hunting knife

Hunting Knife (The New Yorker, November 17,2003)

Odoru kobito

The Dancing Dwarf

TheElephantVanishes

1985

Rdhzen = Lederhosen

Lederhosen

Pan'ya saishgeki

The Second Bakery Attack

Z no shmetsu

The Elephant Vanishes (The New Yorker,November 18, 1991)

Famir afea = Family affair

Family Affair

1986

Rma-teikoku no hkai1881-nen noIndian hkiHittor no Prando shinnysoshite kyf sekai

The Fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 IndianUprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, and the Realmof Raging Winds

Nejimaki-dori to kaybi no onnatachi

The Wind-up Bird And Tuesday's Women (The NewYorker, November 26, 1990)

1989

Nemuri

Sleep (The New Yorker, March 30, 1992)

TVTV ppuru = TV people[64]

TV People (The New Yorker, September 10, 1990)

Hikki: arui wa kare wa ika ni shite shi oyomu y ni hitorigoto o itta ka

Aeroplane: Or, How He Talked to Himself as ifReciting Poetry [1987][65] (The New Yorker, July 1,2002)


Warera no jidai no fkuroa: kdoshihonshugi zenshi

A Folklore for My Generation: A Prehistory of Late-Stage Capitalism

1990Tonii Takitani

Tony Takitani (The New Yorker, April 15, 2002)

1991

Chinmoku

The Silence

TheElephantVanishes

Mado

A Window

Midori-iro no kemono

The Little Green Monster

Kri otoko

The Ice Man


Hito-kui neko

Man-Eating Cats (The New Yorker, December 4,2000)

1995Mekurayanagi to, nemuru onna

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman [1983][66]

1996Nanabanme no otoko

The Seventh Man

1999

UFOUFO ga Kushiro ni oriru

UFO in Kushiro (The New Yorker, March 19, 2001)

after thequake

Airon no aru fkei

Landscape with Flatiron

Kami no kodomotachi wa mina odoru

All God's Children Can Dance

Tairando = Thailand

Thailand

Kaeru-kun, Tky o sukuu

Super-Frog Saves Tokyo



2000Hachimitsu pai

Honey Pie (The New Yorker, August 20, 2001)

2002Bsudei gru = Birthday girl

Birthday Girl

Blind Willow,SleepingWoman2005

Gzen no tabibito

Chance Traveller

Hanarei Bei = Hanalei Bay

Hanalei Bay

Doko de are sore ga mitsukaris na bashode

Where I'm Likely to Find It (The New Yorker, May 2,2005)

Hibi id suru jinz no katachi o shita ishi

The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day

Shinagawa saru

A Shinagawa Monkey (The New Yorker, February13, 2006)

2011 Town of Cats (Excerpt from 1Q84) (The NewYorker, September 5, 2011) [1]

2013

A Walk to Kobe (Granta, issue 124, Summer 2013)[2]

Samsa In Love (The New Yorker, October 28, 2013)[3]

Drive My Car[67]

2014 Yesterday (The New Yorker, June 9, 2014) [4]

Essays and nonfiction [edit]Murakami has published more than forty books of non-fiction. Among them are:

English publication Japanese publication

Year Title Year Title

N/A Walk, Don't Run 1981 : vs Wku donto ran = Walk, don't run: Murakami Ry vsMurakami Haruki

N/ARain, Burning Sun (Come Rain or ComeShine)

1990Uten Enten

N/A Portrait in Jazz 1997Ptoreito in jazu = Portrait in jazz

2000 Underground1997

Andguraundo = Underground

1998underground 2Yakusoku sareta basho de: Underground 2

N/A Portrait in Jazz 2 2001 2Ptoreito in jazu 2 = Portrait in jazz 2

2008What I Talk About When I Talk AboutRunning

2007Hashiru koto ni tsuite kataru toki ni boku no kataru koto

N/AIt Ain't Got that Swing (If It Don't Mean aThing)

2008Imi ga nakereba suingu wa nai

Translations [edit]C. D. B. Bryan The Great DethriffeTruman Capote A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, Breakfast at Tiffany's, I Remember Grandpa, Children onTheir BirthdaysRaymond Carver All Works of Raymond CarverRaymond Chandler Farewell, My Lovely, The Long Goodbye,The Little SisterBill Crow Jazz Anecdotes, From Birdland to BroadwayTerry Farish The Cat Who Liked Potato SoupF. Scott Fitzgerald My Lost City, The Great Gatsby



Jim Fusilli The Beach Boys' Pet SoundsMikal Gilmore Shot in the HeartMark Helprin Swan LakeJohn Irving Setting Free the BearsUrsula K. Le Guin Catwings, Catwings Return, Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings, Jane on her OwnTim O'Brien The Nuclear Age, The Things They Carried, July, JulyGrace Paley Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, The Little Disturbances of ManJ. D. Salinger The Catcher in the RyeShel Silverstein The Giving TreeMark Strand Mr. and Mrs. Baby and Other StoriesPaul Theroux World's End and Other StoriesChris Van Allsburg The Polar Express, The Wretched Stone, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, Ben's Dream,Two Bad Ants, The Sweetest Fig, The Widow's Broom, The Stranger, The Wreck of the Zephyr, The Garden ofAbdul GasaziGeoff Dyer But Beautiful, A Book about Jazz

Translators of Murakami's works [edit]Murakami's works have been translated into many languages. Below is a list of translators according to language (byalphabetical order):

Albanian Etta KlosiArabic Saeed Alganmi, Iman Harrz AllahArmenian Alexander AghabekyanAzerabijani Gunel MovludBasque Ibon UribarriBengali ShahaduzzamanBulgarian Ljudmil LjutskanovCatalan Albert Nolla, Concepci Iribarren, Imma Estany, Jordi Mas LpezChinese / Lai Ming-zhu (Taiwan); / Lin Shaohua, / Shi Xiaowei (Chinese mainland); / YeHui (Hong Kong)Croatian Maja oljan, Vojo indoli, Mate Maras, Maja Tanik, Dinko TeleanCzech Tom JurkoviDanish Mette HolmDutch Elbrich Fennema, Jacques Westerhoven, L. van HauteEnglish Alfred Birnbaum, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel, Hideo Levy (USA); Theodore W. Goossen (Canada)Estonian Kati Lindstrm, Kristina UluotsFaroese Pauli NielsenFinnish Leena Tamminen, Ilkka Malinen, Juhani LindholmFrench Corinne Atlan, Hlne Morita, Patrick De Vos, Vronique Brindeau, Karine Chesneau, Rose-MarieMakino-Fayolle, Dominique LetellierGalician Mona Imai, Gabriel lvarez MartnezGeorgian Irakli Beriashvili; Janri and Luiza LodeshviliGerman Ursula Grfe, Nora Bierich, Sabine Mangold, Jrgen Stalph, Annelie OrtmannsGreek Maria Aggelidou, Thanasis Douvris, Leonidas Karatzas, Juri Kovalenko, Stelios Papazafeiropoulos,Giorgos VoudiklarisHebrew Einat Cooper, Dr. Michal Daliot-Bul, Yonatan Friedman (from English)Hungarian Erds Gyrgy, Horvth Kriszta, Komromy Rudolf, Nagy Mnika, Nagy AnitaIcelandic Uggi JnssonIndonesian Jonjon JohanaItalian Giorgio Amitrano, Antonietta Pastore, Mimma De PetraKorean Kim Choon-Mie, Kim NanjooLatvian Ingna Beere, Inese AvanaLithuanian Milda Dyke, Irena Jomantien, Jrat Nauronait, Marius Dakus, Dalia Saukaityt, Ieva Stasinait,Ieva SusnytNorwegian Ika Kaminka, Kari and Kjell RisvikPersian Gita Garakani, Mehdi Ghabraee, Bozorgmehr SharafoddinPolish Anna Zieliska-ElliottPortuguese Maria Joo Loureno (Portugal); Ana Luiza Dantas Borges, Leiko Gotoda, Lica Hashimoto (BrazilianPortuguese)Romanian Angela Hondru, Silvia Cercheaza, Andreea Sion, Iuliana Tomescu



Russian Dmitry V. Kovalenin, Vadim Smolensky, Ivan Logatchev, Sergey Logatchev, Andrey Zamilov, NatalyaKunikovaSerbian Nataa Tomi, Divna TomiSlovak Dana Hashimoto, Lucia KrulkovSlovene Nika Cejan, Aleksander MermalSpanish Lourdes Porta, Junichi Matsuura, Fernando Rodrguez-Izquierdo, Francisco Barbern, Albert Nolla,Gabriel lvarezSwedish Yukiko Duke, Eiko Duke, Vibeke EmondThai Noppadol Vatsawat, Komsan Nantachit, Tomorn SukprechaTurkish Pnar Polat, Nihal nol, Hseyin Can ErkinUkrainian Ivan Dziub, Oleksandr BibkoVietnamese Trinh Lu, Tran Tien Cao Dang, Duong Tuong, Cao Viet Dung, Pham Xuan Nguyen, Luc Huong,Pham Vu Thinh

See also [edit]Novels portal Japan portal

References [edit]1. ^ Curtis Brown (2014), "Haruki Murakami now available in 50 languages" , curtisbrown.co.uk, February 27, 2014:

"Following a recent Malay deal Haruki Marukami's work is now available in 50 languages worldwide."2. ^ Maiko, Hisada (November 1995). "Murakami Haruki" . Kyoto Sangyo University. Archived from the original on 2008-

05-23. Retrieved 2008-04-24.3. â b Endelstein, Wendy, What Haruki Murakami talks about when he talks about writing , UC Berkeley News, October

15, 2008, accessed August 12, 20144. â b Poole, Steven (May 27, 2000). "Tunnel vision" . The Guardian (London). Retrieved 2009-04-24.5. ^ "Murakami Asahido", Shincho-sha,19846. â b c d Brown, Mick (August 15, 2003). "Tales of the unexpected" . The Daily Telegraph (London). Retrieved 2008-07-

09.7. ^ Tandon, Shaun (March 27, 2006). "The loneliness of Haruki Murakami" . iAfrica. Retrieved 2008-04-24.8. ^ Rubin, Jay (2002). Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words. Harvill Press. p. 14. ISBN 1-86046-986-8.9. ^ Naparstek, Ben (June 24, 2006). "The lone wolf" . The Age (Melbourne). Retrieved 2008-04-24.

10. ^ Gewertz, Ken (December 1, 2005). "Murakami is explorer of imagination" . Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 2008-04-24.11. ^ Goodwin, Liz C. (November 3, 2005). "Translating Murakami" . Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 2008-04-24.12. ^ Nakanishi, Wendy Jones (May 8, 2006). "Nihilism or Nonsense? The Postmodern Fiction of Martin Amis and Haruki

Murakami" . Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies. Retrieved 2008-11-18.13. ^ Slocombe, Will (2004), "Haruki Murakami and the Ethics of Translation" (doi: 10.7771/1481-4374.1232), CLCWeb:

Comparative Literature and Culture (ISSN 1481-4374), Purdue University Press, Vol. 6, Nr. 2, p. 5.14. ^ Chozick, Matthew Richard (2008), "De-Exoticizing Haruki Murakami's Reception" (doi: 10.1353/cls.0.0012),

Comparative Literature Studies (ISSN 0010-4132), Pennsylvania State University Press, Vol. 45, Nr. 1, p. 67.15. ^ Chozick, Matthew (August 29, 2007). "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" . The Literary Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2008-04-

24.16. ^ "Nobody pounded the table anymore, nobody threw their cups" . The Guardian (London). July 27, 2008. Retrieved

2008-07-27.17. ^ Houpt, Simon (August 1, 2008). "The loneliness of the long-distance writer" . Globe and Mail (Toronto). Retrieved

2008-12-10.18. ^ Murakami, Haruki (July 8, 2007). "Jazz Messenger" . New York Times. Retrieved 2008-04-24.19. ^ Murakami, Haruki (Winter 1994). "Interview with John Wesley Harding" . BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 2012-05-04.20. ^ Phelan, Stephen (February 5, 2005). "Dark master of a dream world" . The Age (Melbourne). Retrieved 2008-04-24.21. ^ Grossekathfer, Maik (February 20, 2008). "When I Run I Am in a Peaceful Place" . Spiegel. Retrieved 2008-04-24.22. ^ Publishers Weekly, 199123. ^ Murakami, Haruki (May 3, 2013). "BOSTON, FROM ONE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD WHO CALLS HIMSELF A

RUNNER" . The New Yorker (New York). Retrieved 2013-05-03.24. ^ "Haruki Murakami congratulated on Nobel Prize only, he hadn't won it" . Japan News Review. July 5, 2007.

Retrieved 2008-04-24.25. ^ Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Irmela (10 January 2014). "Orchestrating Translations: The Case of Murakami Haruki" . Nippon

Communications Foundation. Retrieved 13 January 2014.26. ^ World Fantasy Convention (2010). "Award Winners and Nominees" . Retrieved 4 Feb 2011.27. ^ "Haruki Murakami hard at work on 'horror' novel" . ABC News. April 9, 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-24.28. ^ Alastair Campbell (July 26, 2008). "Review: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami" .

London: Guardian. Retrieved 2011-12-05.29. ^ "Murakami round-up: ichi kyu hachi yon" . Meanjin. August 6, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-04.



30. ^ "Japan-related books disappear in Beijing; Chinese demand pay hikes from Japanese employers" . Asahi shimbun.September 22, 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-23.

31. ^ "What is behind the anti-Japanese protests in China?" . Voice of Russia. September 28, 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-29.32. ^ "Author Murakami wades into Japan-China island row" . AFP. Hindustan Times. September 28, 2012. Retrieved 2012-

09-29.33. ^ "Murakamis first novel in 3 years to be published in April - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun" . Ajw.asahi.com. Retrieved

2013-04-06.34. ^ http://www.hawaii.edu/calendar/manoa/2013/10/31/22467.html?et_id=2974835. ^ "Haruki Murakami's themes of disaffected youth resonate with his East Asian fans" . Asahi Shimbun AJW. 2013-12-

15. Retrieved 2014-08-12.36. ^ "Japan's Murakami wins Kafka prize" . CBC News. October 30, 2006. Retrieved 2008-04-24.37. ^ "Presse et Communication" . Universit de Lige. July 5, 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-24.38. ^ Dienst, Karin (June 3, 2008). "Princeton awards five honorary degrees" . Princeton University. Retrieved 2008-06-05.39. ^ "Honorary Degree Recipients 2014" , Tufts University, Mai 18, 2014.40. ^ "2007 Kiriyama Price Winners" . Pacific Rim Voices. 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-24.41. ^ "Haruki Murakami: The novelist in wartime" . Salon.com. 20 February 2009. Retrieved 17 September 2011.42. ^ "Novelist Murakami accepts Israeli literary prize" . The Japan Times. Feb 17, 2009. Retrieved Apr 10, 2009.43. ^ Alison Flood (13 June 2011). "Murakami laments Japan's nuclear policy" . The Guardian (London).44. ^a b Roland Kelts (October 16, 2012). "The Harukists, Disappointed" . The New Yorker. Retrieved October 17, 2012.45. ^ "Nomination Facts" . Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 9 January 2010. Retrieved 3 March 2010.46. ^ "Kazuki Omori" . Internet Movie Database. 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-10.47. ^ "Panya shugeki" . Internet Movie Database. 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-10.48. ^ Chonin, Neva (September 2, 2005). "Love turns an artist's solitude into loneliness" . San Francisco Chronicle.

Retrieved 2008-04-24.49. ^ "The Second Bakery Attack" . Internet Movie Database. 2010. Retrieved 2013-03-02.50. ^ Billington, Michael (June 30, 2003). "The Elephant Vanishes" . The Guardian (London). Retrieved 2008-04-24.51. ^ "after the quake" . Berkeley Repertory Theatre. 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-24.52. ^ Lavey, Martha, & Galati, Frank (2008). "Artistic Director Interviews The Adapter/Director" . Steppenwolf Theatre.

Retrieved 2008-09-01.53. ^ Flint, Tom (2008). "On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" . CON-CAN Movie Festival.

Retrieved 2008-07-09.54. ^ Gray, Jason (2008). Tran to adapt Norwegian Wood for Asmik Ace, Fuji TV , Screen Daily.com article retrieved

August 1, 2008.55. ^ "Nippon Cinema (Norwegian Wood Trailer)" . 20062010 Nippon Cinema. Retrieved 2010-12-22.56. ^ "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" . theatermania. Retrieved 28 December 2013.57. ^ "Dreams within dreams: A haunting vision of Haruki Murakami's "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" " . The Economist.

August 27, 2011.58. ^ ".DC: JPN (after the quake 2011) at bandcamp" . Drecarlan.bandcamp.com. 2011-03-22. Retrieved 2011-12-05.59. ^ "Source" . Geocities.jp. Retrieved 2013-04-06.60. ^ The Elephant Vanishes was first a 1993 English-language compilation, whose Japanese counterpart was released later

in 2005. (See also the collection's article ja: 1980-1991 in Japanese.)61. ^ Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman was first a 2006 English-language compilation, whose Japanese counterpart was

released later in 2009. (See also the collection's article ja: () in Japanese.)62. ^ http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/18/national/murakamis-new-book-unveiled-in-japan/63. ^ The short story "Crabs" ( Kani?) was first published nested within the untranslated story "Baseball Field" (

Yakyj?) in 1984, then cut out and revised for separate publication in 2003. See also: Daniel Morales (2008), "MurakamiHaruki B-Sides" , Nojaponisme, May 12, 2008: "Thus begins Baseball Field [1984], one of Haruki Murakami's lesser-known short stories. Part of the story was extracted, edited and expanded into Crabs, published in Blind Willow,Sleeping Woman, but the entirety has never been published in English. The young man in the story is at a caf withMurakami himself. He mailed Murakami one of his short stories (the content of which the real-life Murakami later turnedinto Crabs), and Murakami, charmed by the young man's interesting handwriting and somewhat impressed with thestory itself, read all 70 pages and sent him a letter of suggestions. Baseball Field tells the story of their subsequentmeeting over coffee."

64. ^ This story originally appeared in a magazine under the longer title TV (TV ppuru no gyakush, literally"The TV People Strike Back") but received this shorter final title for all further appearances. (See also ja:TV inJapanese.)

65. ^ An earlier version of "Aeroplane" was published in 1987, then this rewritten version published in 1989.66. ^ "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman" was first published in 1983 as a different version (whose title didn't bear a comma),

then rewritten in 1995 (taking its final title). (See also the story's article ja: in Japanese.)67. ^ The Guardian. "Haruki Murakami gets back to the Beatles in new short story" . Retrieved 17 Nov 2013.

Further reading [edit]Pintor, Ivan. "David Lynch y Haruki Murakami, la llama en el umbral," in: VV.AA., Universo Lynch. InternacionalSitges Film Festival-Calamar, 2007 (ISBN 84-96235-16-5)Rubin, Jay. Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words. Harvill Press, 2002 (ISBN 1-86046-952-3)



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Video about Murakami's life and work at Psychology Today's blog The Literary Mind

Works by Haruki Murakami

Novels

Hear the Wind Sing (1979) Pinball, 1973 (1980) A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985) Norwegian Wood (1987) Dance Dance Dance(1988) South of the Border, West of the Sun (1992) The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (19941995) Sputnik Sweetheart (1999) Kafka on the Shore (2002) After Dark (2004) 1Q84 (20092010) Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (2013)

Story collectionsThe Elephant Vanishes (1993: 19801991) After the quake (2000: 19992000) Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2006: 19802005)

Non-fictionUnderground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (19971998) What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007)

Other books Birthday Stories (2002 anthology)

Adaptations The Elephant Vanishes (2003 play) Tony Takitani (2004 film) Norwegian Wood (2010 film)

World Fantasy Award for Best Novel

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