Haruki Murakami

Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel ''Hear the Wind Sing'' (1979) after working as the owner of a small jazz bar for seven years. His notable works include the novels ''Norwegian Wood'' (1987), ''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'' (1994–95), ''Kafka on the Shore'' (2002) and ''1Q84'' (2009–10); the last was ranked as the best work of Japan's Heisei era (1989–2019) by the national newspaper ''Asahi Shimbun'' survey of literary experts. His work spans genres including science fiction, fantasy, and crime fiction, and has become known for his use of magical realist elements. His official website cites Raymond Chandler, Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan as key inspirations to his work, while Murakami himself has named Kazuo Ishiguro, Cormac McCarthy, and Dag Solstad as his favorite contemporary writers. Murakami has also published five short story collections, including ''First Person Singular'' (2020), and non-fiction works including ''Underground'' (1997), an oral history of the Tokyo subway sarin attack, and ''What I Talk About When I Talk About Running'' (2007), a memoir about his experience as a long distance runner.
His fiction has polarized literary critics and the reading public. He has sometimes been criticised by Japan's literary establishment as un-Japanese, leading to Murakami's recalling that he was a "black sheep in the Japanese literary world". Meanwhile, Murakami has been described by Gary Fisketjon, the editor of Murakami's collection ''The Elephant Vanishes'' (1993), as a "truly extraordinary writer", while Steven Poole of ''The Guardian'' praised Murakami as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his oeuvre. Provided by Wikipedia
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London : Panther, 2000
London : Panther, 2000
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Tōkyō : Kōdansha, 1990
Tōkyō : Kōdansha, 1990
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Tōkyō : Kōdansha, 1990
Tōkyō : Kōdansha, 1990
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Tōkyō : Kōdansha, 1988
Tōkyō : Kōdansha, 1988
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Tōkyō : Shinchōsha, 2017
Tōkyō : Shinchōsha, 2017
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Tōkyō : NHK Shuppan, 2014
Tōkyō : NHK Shuppan, 2014
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014
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Franklin, TN : Naxos AudioBooks, 2006
Franklin, TN : Naxos AudioBooks, 2006
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015
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Tōkyō : Shinchōsha, 2005
Tōkyō : Shinchōsha, 2005
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Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 2000
Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 2000
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Tōkyō : Kōdansha, 2004
Tōkyō : Kōdansha, 2004
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