Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹, Murakami Haruki, born January 12, 1949) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been bestsellers in Japan as well as internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and selling millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzou Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, and the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J.M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V.S. Naipaul.Growing up in 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Haruki Murakami has received more than 6,249,429 page views. His biography is available in 88 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). Haruki Murakami is the 143rd most popular writer (up from 144th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Japan (up from 14th 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.