WRITER

Haruki Murakami

1949 - Today

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Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹, Murakami Haruki, born January 12, 1949) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Haruki Murakami has received more than 9,545,526 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2019). Haruki Murakami is the 110th most popular writer (up from 128th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Japan (up from 12th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Writer.

Haruki Murakami is a Japanese author and translator who is most famous for his surrealist novels.

Memorability Metrics

  • 9.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 76.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 93

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Haruki Murakami ranks 110 out of 7,302. Before him are Abu Nuwas, Du Fu, André Gide, Stephen King, Maurice Maeterlinck, and August Strindberg. After him are Apuleius, Jean de La Fontaine, George Bernard Shaw, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Sully Prudhomme, and Federico García Lorca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Haruki Murakami ranks 5. Before him are Pablo Escobar, Benjamin Netanyahu, António Guterres, and Caitlyn Jenner. After him are Niki Lauda, Meryl Streep, Pedro Almodóvar, Mark Knopfler, Bernard Arnault, Lech Kaczyński, and Anna Wintour.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Haruki Murakami ranks 10 out of 6,245. Before him are Akihito (1933), Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Akira Kurosawa (1910), Emperor Meiji (1852), Oda Nobunaga (1534), and Matsuo Bashō (1644). After him are Yukio Mishima (1925), Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542), Naruhito (1960), Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536), Emperor Taishō (1879), and Isoroku Yamamoto (1884).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Haruki Murakami ranks 3. Before him are Miyamoto Musashi (1584), and Matsuo Bashō (1644). After him are Yukio Mishima (1925), Yasunari Kawabata (1899), Osamu Dazai (1909), Murasaki Shikibu (973), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), Natsume Sōseki (1867), Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), and Kōbō Abe (1924).

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