1949 - Today
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.
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Among writers, Haruki Murakami ranks 143 out of 5,794. Before him are Apuleius, Guillaume Apollinaire, Charlotte Brontë, Eugène Ionesco, Tove Jansson, and Aldous Huxley. After him are Catullus, J. D. Salinger, John Steinbeck, H. P. Lovecraft, Pliny the Younger, and Ferdowsi.
125 - 170
HPI: 81.01
Rank: 137
1880 - 1918
HPI: 80.91
Rank: 138
1816 - 1855
HPI: 80.87
Rank: 139
1909 - 1994
HPI: 80.83
Rank: 140
1914 - 2001
HPI: 80.74
Rank: 141
1894 - 1963
HPI: 80.72
Rank: 142
1949 - Present
HPI: 80.69
Rank: 143
84 BC - 54 BC
HPI: 80.66
Rank: 144
1919 - 2010
HPI: 80.62
Rank: 145
1902 - 1968
HPI: 80.60
Rank: 146
1890 - 1937
HPI: 80.52
Rank: 147
61 - 113
HPI: 80.50
Rank: 148
940 - 1020
HPI: 80.48
Rank: 149
Among people born in 1949, Haruki Murakami ranks 4. Before him are Pablo Escobar, Meryl Streep, and Niki Lauda. After him are Benjamin Netanyahu, António Guterres, Pedro Almodóvar, Mark Knopfler, Richard Gere, Sigourney Weaver, Anna Wintour, and Bruce Springsteen.
1949 - 1993
HPI: 85.91
Rank: 1
1949 - Present
HPI: 81.71
Rank: 2
1949 - 2019
HPI: 80.74
Rank: 3
1949 - Present
HPI: 80.69
Rank: 4
1949 - Present
HPI: 79.43
Rank: 5
1949 - Present
HPI: 79.36
Rank: 6
1949 - Present
HPI: 78.84
Rank: 7
1949 - Present
HPI: 78.69
Rank: 8
1949 - Present
HPI: 78.01
Rank: 9
1949 - Present
HPI: 77.68
Rank: 10
1949 - Present
HPI: 77.33
Rank: 11
1949 - Present
HPI: 76.36
Rank: 12
Among people born in Japan, Haruki Murakami ranks 11 out of 5,560. Before him are Matsuo Bashō (1644), Akihito (1933), Emperor Meiji (1852), Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Oda Nobunaga (1534), and Yoko Ono (1933). After him are Isoroku Yamamoto (1884), Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542), Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536), Murasaki Shikibu (973), Olivia de Havilland (1916), and Yukio Mishima (1925).
1644 - 1694
HPI: 84.29
Rank: 5
1933 - Present
HPI: 83.49
Rank: 6
1852 - 1912
HPI: 82.77
Rank: 7
1584 - 1645
HPI: 82.39
Rank: 8
1534 - 1582
HPI: 81.88
Rank: 9
1933 - Present
HPI: 81.01
Rank: 10
1949 - Present
HPI: 80.69
Rank: 11
1884 - 1943
HPI: 80.66
Rank: 12
1542 - 1616
HPI: 80.56
Rank: 13
1536 - 1598
HPI: 80.29
Rank: 14
973 - 1014
HPI: 80.25
Rank: 15
1916 - 2020
HPI: 80.24
Rank: 16
1925 - 1970
HPI: 79.52
Rank: 17
Among writers born in Japan, Haruki Murakami ranks 3. Before him are Matsuo Bashō (1644) and Miyamoto Musashi (1584). After him are Murasaki Shikibu (973), Yukio Mishima (1925), Yasunari Kawabata (1899), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), Osamu Dazai (1909), Sei Shōnagon (966), Natsume Sōseki (1867), and Kazuo Ishiguro (1954).
1644 - 1694
HPI: 84.29
Rank: 1
1584 - 1645
HPI: 82.39
Rank: 2
1949 - Present
HPI: 80.69
Rank: 3
973 - 1014
HPI: 80.25
Rank: 4
1925 - 1970
HPI: 79.52
Rank: 5
1899 - 1972
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 6
1935 - Present
HPI: 76.31
Rank: 7
1892 - 1927
HPI: 76.02
Rank: 8
1909 - 1948
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 9
966 - 1025
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 10
1867 - 1916
HPI: 73.90
Rank: 11
1954 - Present
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 12