Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹, Murakami Haruki, born January 12, 1949) is a Japanese writer. His books and stories have been bestsellers in Japan as well as internationally, with his work being translated into 50 languages and selling millions of copies outside his native country. His work has received numerous awards, including the World Fantasy Award, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, and the Jerusalem Prize.Murakami's most notable works include A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95), Kafka on the Shore (2002), and 1Q84 (2009–10). He has also translated works by writers like Raymond Carver and J. D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Haruki Murakami has received more than 5,334,856 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.