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Haruki Murakami

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Born: January 11 1949

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Murakami Haruki is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. His work has been described as 'easily accessible, yet profoundly complex'. He can be located on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/harukimuraka...

Since childhood, Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western music and literature. He grew up reading a range of works by American writers, such as Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and he is often distinguished from other Japanese writers by his Western influences.

Murakami studied drama at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he met his wife, Yoko. His first job was at a record store, which is where one of his main characters, Toru Watanabe in Norwegian Wood, works. Shortly before finishing his studies, Murakami opened the coffeehouse 'Peter Cat' which was a jazz bar in the evening in Kokubunji, Tokyo with his wife.

Many of his novels have themes and titles that invoke classical music, such as the three books making up The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: The Thieving Magpie , Bird as Prophet , and The Bird-Catcher . Some of his novels take their titles from songs: Dance, Dance, Dance , Norwegian Wood and South of the Border, West of the Sun .

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Haruki Murakami

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Books from Haruki Murakami

Norwegian Wood

Kafka on the Shore

1Q84

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

After Dark

Sputnik Sweetheart

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

A Wild Sheep Chase

South of the Border, West of the Sun

Men Without Women

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

The Strange Library

The Elephant Vanishes

Killing Commendatore

After the Quake

Wind/Pinball: Two Novels

1Q84 #1-2

Pinball, 1973

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche