Author
Born 12 January 1949
Also known as Murakami, Haruki, 春樹 村上, HARUKI MURAKAMI, Haruki MURAKAMI, MURAKAMI HARUKI, Murakami Haruki, MURAKAMI Haruki, Харуки Мураками, 村上, 春树, 村上春树, 무라카미, 하루키, 무라카미 하루키, هاروكي موراكامي, هاروکی موراکامی, הרוקי מורקמי, Kharuki Murakami, MURAKAMI, Murakami Kharuki, Murakami Haruki Kenkyūkai
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim, and he is the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize for his novel Kafka on the Shore. He is considered an important figure in postmodern literature, and The Guardian praised him as one of the "world's greatest living novelists." (Source.)
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Readers in conversation
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i haven't been this conflicted and frustrated with a read in a really, really long time. it was so frustrating to see an author who's clearly capable of stringing a decent story and sentence together just shoot himself in the foot over and over again with the…
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Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s what part of it means to be alive. But inside our heads — at least that’s where I imagine it — there’s a little room where…
But nature is actually kind of unnatural, in a way. And relaxation can actually be threatening. It takes experience and preparation to really live with those contradictions.