Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese novelist, short-story writer, and translator born on January 12, 1949, in Kyoto, Japan, who grew up in Kobe and later attended Waseda University in Tokyo. After running a jazz bar with his wife for seven years, he began writing following an epiphany at a baseball game in 1978, publishing his debut novel Hear the Wind Sing in 1979, which won the Gunzou Literature Prize. He achieved international fame with works like Norwegian Wood in 1987, blending magical realism, surrealism, and existential themes in novels translated into over 50 languages.
magical realism
surrealism
fiction
Killing Commendatore: A novel
Killing Commendatore: A novel
Men Without Women: Stories
Men Without Women: Stories
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Norwegian Wood
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
Wind/Pinball: Two novels
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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The Strange Library
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel
Wind/Pinball: Two novels
Kafka on the Shore
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International)
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A novel
A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A novel
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Novelist as a Vocation
A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel
Novelist as a Vocation
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Vintage International)