Haruki Murakami

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Murakami studied drama at Waseda University in Tokyo,
Haruki Murakami ( Murakami Haruki, born where he met his wife, Yoko. His rst job was at a
January 12, 1949) is a Japanese writer. His books and record store, much like Toru Watanabe, the narrator of
stories have been bestsellers in Japan as well as inter- Norwegian Wood. Shortly before nishing his studies,
nationally, with his work being translated into 50 lan- Murakami opened a coee house and jazz bar, the Pe-
guages* [1] and selling millions of copies outside his na- ter Cat, in Kokubunji, Tokyo, which he ran with his
tive country.* [2]* [3] The critical acclaim for his c- wife,* [14] from 1974 to 1981.* [15]
tion and non-ction has led to numerous awards, in Murakami is a serious marathon runner and triathlon en-
Japan and internationally, including the World Fantasy thusiast, though he did not start running until he was
Award (2006) and the Frank O'Connor International 33 years old. On 23 June 1996, he completed his rst
Short Story Award (2006). His oeuvre received, for ex- ultramarathon, a 100 km race around Lake Saroma in
ample, the Franz Kafka Prize (2006) and the Jerusalem Hokkaido, Japan.* [16] He discusses his relationship with
Prize (2009). running in his 2008 memoir What I Talk About When I
Murakami's most notable works include A Wild Sheep Talk About Running.* [17]
Chase (1982), Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up
Bird Chronicle (199495), Kafka on the Shore (2002), and
1Q84 (200910). He has also translated into Japanese
English works by writers ranging from Raymond Carver 2 Writing career
to J. D. Salinger. His ction, still* [4] criticized by
Japan's literary establishment as un-Japanese, was inu- 2.1 Trilogy of the Rat
enced by Western writers from Chandler to Vonnegut by
way of Brautigan. It is frequently surrealistic and melan- Murakami began to write ction when he was 29.* [18]
cholic or fatalistic, marked by a Kafkaesque rendition Before that, he said, I didn't write anything. I
of the recurrent themes of alienation and loneliness was just one of those ordinary people. I was running a
*
[5] he weaves into his narratives. He is also consid- jazz club, and I didn't create anything at all.* [19] He
ered an important gure in postmodern literature. Steven was inspired to write his rst novel, Hear the Wind Sing
Poole of The Guardian praised Murakami as among (1979), while watching a baseball game.* [20] In 1978,
the world's greatest living novelistsfor his works and Murakami was in Jingu Stadium watching a game be-
achievements.* [6] tween the Yakult Swallows and the Hiroshima Carp when
Dave Hilton, an American, came to bat. According to an
oft-repeated story, in the instant that Hilton hit a dou-
ble, Murakami suddenly realized that he could write a
1 Biography novel.* [21] He went home and began writing that night.
Murakami worked on Hear the Wind Sing for ten months
Murakami was born in Kyoto, Japan, during the post in very brief stretches after working days at the bar.* [22]
World War II baby boom and raised in Shukugawa He completed the novel and sent it to the only literary
(Nishinomiya), Ashiya and Kobe.* [7]* [8] He is an only contest that would accept a work of that length, winning
child. His father was the son of a Buddhist priest,* [9] rst prize.
and his mother the daughter of an Osaka merchant.* [10] Murakami's initial success with Hear the Wind Sing en-
Both taught Japanese literature.* [11] couraged him to continue writing. A year later, he pub-
Since childhood, Murakami similarly to Kb Abe has lished a sequel, Pinball, 1973. In 1982, he published A
been heavily inuenced by Western culture, particularly Wild Sheep Chase, a critical success. Hear the Wind Sing,
Western as well as Russian music and literature. He grew Pinball, 1973, and A Wild Sheep Chase form the Trilogy
up reading a wide range of works by European and Amer- of the Rat (a sequel, Dance, Dance, Dance, was written
ican writers, such as Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, later but is not considered part of the series), centered on
Charles Dickens, Kurt Vonnegut, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the same unnamed narrator and his friend,the [Link]

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2 2 WRITING CAREER

rst two novels were not widely available in English trans- said, originated in an individual darkness, while his later
lation outside Japan until 2015, although an English edi- works tap into the darkness found in society and history.
*
tion, translated by Alfred Birnbaum with extensive notes, [5]
had been published by Kodansha as part of a series in- English translations of many of his short stories writ-
tended for Japanese students of English. Murakami con- ten between 1983 and 1990 have been collected in The
siders his rst two novels to beimmatureandimsy, Elephant Vanishes. Murakami has also translated many
*
[22] and has not been eager to have them translated into works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, Truman
English. A Wild Sheep Chase, he says, wasthe rst book Capote, John Irving, and Paul Theroux, among others,
where I could feel a kind of sensation, the joy of telling a
into Japanese.* [8]
story. When you read a good story, you just keep reading.
When I write a good story, I just keep writing.* [23] Murakami took an active role in translation of his work
into English, encouraging adaptationsof his texts to
American reality rather than direct translation. Some
2.2 Wider recognition of his works which appeared in German turned out to
be translations from English rather than from Japanese
In 1985, Murakami wrote Hard-Boiled Wonderland and (South of the Border, West of the Sun, 2000; The Wind-Up
the End of the World, a dream-like fantasy that took Bird Chronicle, 2000s), encouraged by Murakami him-
the magical elements of his work to a new extreme. self. Both were later re-translated from Japanese.* [27]
Murakami achieved a major breakthrough and national
recognition in 1987 with the publication of Norwegian
Wood, a nostalgic story of loss and sexuality. It sold mil- 2.4 Since 2000
lions of copies among young Japanese.
Sputnik Sweetheart was rst published in 1999, followed
Norwegian Wood propelled the barely known Murakami by Kafka on the Shore in 2002, with the English trans-
into the spotlight. He was mobbed at airports and other lation following in 2005. Kafka on the Shore won the
public places, leading to his departure from Japan in World Fantasy Award for Novels in 2006.* [28] The En-
1986.* [24] Murakami traveled through Europe and even- glish version of his novel After Dark was released in May
tually settled in the United States. 2007. It was chosen by The New York Times as a no-
Murakami was a writing fellow at Princeton University table book of the year. In late 2005, Murakami pub-
in Princeton, New Jersey, Tufts University in Medford, lished a collection of short stories titled Tky Kitansh,
Massachusetts, and Harvard University in Cambridge, or , which translates loosely asMysteries of
Massachusetts.* [8]* [25] During this time he wrote South Tokyo.A collection of the English versions of twenty-
of the Border, West of the Sun and The Wind-Up Bird four short stories, titled Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman,
Chronicle.* [8] was published in August 2006. This collection includes
both older works from the 1980s as well as some of Mu-
rakami's more recent short stories, including all ve that
2.3 From detachmentto commitment appear in Tky Kitansh.
In 2002, Murakami published the anthology Birthday
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995) is a novel that fuses Stories, which collects short stories on the theme of
the realistic and fantastic, and contains elements of phys-
birthdays. The collection includes work by Russell
ical violence. It is also more socially conscious than his Banks, Ethan Canin, Raymond Carver, David Foster
previous work, dealing in part with the dicult topic of
Wallace, Denis Johnson, Claire Keegan, Andrea Lee,
war crimes in Manchukuo (Northeast China). The novel Daniel Lyons, Lynda Sexson, Paul Theroux, and William
won the Yomiuri Prize, awarded by one of his harshest
Trevor, as well as a story by Murakami himself. What I
former critics, Kenzabur e, winner of the Nobel Prize Talk About When I Talk About Running, containing tales
for Literature in 1994.* [26] about his experience as a marathon runner and a triath-
The processing of collective trauma soon became an im- lete, was published in Japan in 2007,* [29] with English
portant theme in Murakami's writing, which had pre- translations released in the U.K. and the U.S. in 2008.
viously been more personal in nature. Murakami re- The title is a play on that of Raymond Carver's short story
turned to Japan in the aftermath of the Kobe earth- collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About
quake and the Aum Shinrikyo gas attack.* [12] He came Love.* [30]
to terms with these events with his rst work of non- Shinchosha Publishing published Murakami's novel 1Q84
ction, Underground, and the short story collection after
in Japan on May 29, 2009. 1Q84 is pronouncedichi ky
the quake. Underground consists largely of interviews of
hachi yon, the same as 1984, as 9 is also pronounced
victims of the gas attacks in the Tokyo subway [Link]" in Japanese.* [31] The book was longlisted for the
Murakami himself mentions that he changed his position Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011. However, after the
from one of detachmentto one of commitment anti-Japanese demonstrations, in China, in 2012, Mu-
after staying in the USA in 1991. His early books, he rakami's books were removed from sale there, along with
 4.1 Prizes for books 3

those of other Japanese authors.* [32]* [33] Murakami 4.1 Prizes for books
criticized the China-Japan political territorial dispute,
characterizing the overwrought nationalistic response as 1979: Gunzo Award (best rst novel) for Hear the
cheap liquorwhich politicians were giving to the pub- Wind Sing
lic.* [34] In April 2013, he published his novel "Colorless
Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage". It be- 1982: Noma Literary Prize (best newcomer) for A
came an international best seller but received mixed re- Wild Sheep Chase
* *
views. [35] [36] 1985: Tanizaki Prize for Hard-Boiled Wonderland
and the End of the World

1995: Yomiuri Prize (best novel) for The Wind-Up

3 Writing style Bird Chronicle

Most of Haruki Murakami's works use rst-person nar- 1999: Kuwabara Takeo Prize for Underground* [12]
rative in the tradition of the Japanese I Novel. He states
2006: World Fantasy Award (best novel) for Kafka
that because family plays a signicant role in traditional
on the Shore
Japanese literature, any main character who is indepen-
dent becomes a man who values freedom and solitude 2006: Frank O'Connor International Short Story
over intimacy.* [22] Also notable is Murakami's unique Award for Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
humor, as seen in his 2000 short story collection, After the
Quake. In the storySuperfrog Saves Tokyo, the protag-
Murakami was also awarded the 2007 Kiriyama Prize for
onist is confronted with a 6-foot tall frog that talks about
Fiction for his collection of short stories Blind Willow,
the destruction of Tokyo over a cup of tea. In spite of
Sleeping Woman, but according to the prize's ocial web-
the story's sober tone, Murakami feels the reader should
site, Murakamideclined to accept the award for reasons
be entertained once the seriousness of a subject has been
of personal principle.* [43]
broached. Another notable feature of Murakami's stories
are the comments that come from the main characters as
to how strange the story presents itself. Murakami ex- 4.2 Prizes for Murakami
plains that his characters experience what he experiences
as he writes, which could be compared to a movie set In 2006, Murakami became the sixth recipient of the
where the walls and props are all fake.* [22] Franz Kafka Prize.* [44]
Many of his novels have themes and titles that invoke clas- In September 2007, he received an honorary doctorate
sical music, such as the three books making up The Wind- of Letters from the University of Lige,* [45] one from
Up Bird Chronicle: The Thieving Magpie (after Rossini's Princeton University in June 2008,* [46] and one from
opera), Bird as Prophet (after a piano piece by Robert Tufts University* [47] in May 2014.
Schumann usually known in English as The Prophet Bird),
and The Bird-Catcher (a character in Mozart's opera The In January 2009 Murakami received the Jerusalem Prize,
Magic Flute). Some of his novels take their titles from a biennial literary award given to writers whose work
songs: Dance, Dance, Dance (after The Dells' 1957 B- deals with themes of human freedom, society, politics,
side song,* [37]* [38] although it is often thought it was and government. There were protests in Japan and else-
titled after the Beach Boys' 1964 tune), Norwegian Wood where against his attending the February award ceremony
(after The Beatles' song) and South of the Border, West of in Israel, including threats to boycott his work as a re-
the Sun (after the song "South of the Border").* [39] sponse against Israel's recent bombing of Gaza. Mu-
rakami chose to attend the ceremony, but gave a speech to
Some analyses see aspects of shamanism in his writ- the gathered Israeli dignitaries harshly criticizing Israeli
ing. In a 2000 article, Susan Fisher connected Japanese policies.* [48] Murakami said, Each of us possesses a
folk religion or Japanese shamanism with some elements tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We
of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,* [40] such as a descent must not allow the system to exploit us.* [49]
into a dry well. At an October 2013 symposium held
at the University of Hawaii,* [41] associate professor of In 2011, Murakami donated his 80,000 winnings from
Japanese Nobuko Ochner opined there were many de- the International Catalunya Prize (from the Generalitat
scriptions of traveling in a parallel world as well as char- of Catalunya) to the victims of the March 11 earthquake
acters who have some connection to shamanism* [42] and tsunami, and to those aected by the Fukushima nu-
in Murakami's works. clear disaster. Accepting the award, he said in his speech
that the situation at the Fukushima plant was the sec-
ond major nuclear disaster that the Japanese people have
experienced... however, this time it was not a bomb be-
4 Recognition ing dropped upon us, but a mistake committed by our
very own [Link] to Murakami, the Japanese
 4 6 PERSONAL LIFE

people should have rejected nuclear power after having Two stories from Murakami's book after the quake
learned through the sacrice of the hibakusha just how "Honey PieandSuperfrog Saves Tokyohave been
badly radiation leaves scars on the world and human well- adapted for the stage and directed by Frank Galati. En-
being.* [50] titled after the quake, the play was rst performed at
In recent years, Haruki Murakami has often been men- the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in association with
tioned as a possible recipient of the Nobel Prize in Liter- La Jolla Playhouse, and opened on October 12, 2007,
ature.* [51] Nonetheless, since all nomination records are at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.* [61] In 2008, Galati also
sealed for 50 years from the awarding of the prize, it is adapted and directed a theatrical version of Kafka on the
Shore, which rst ran at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre
pure speculation.* [52] When asked about the possibility
of being awarded the Nobel Prize, Murakami responded Company from September to November.* [62]
with a laugh sayingNo, I don't want prizes. That means On Max Richter's 2006 album Songs from Before, Robert
you're nished.* [51] Wyatt reads passages from Murakami's novels. In 2007,
In October 2014, he was awarded the Welt- Robert Logevall adapted All God's Children Can
Literaturpreis.* [53] Danceinto a lm, with a soundtrack composed by Amer-
ican jam band Sound Tribe Sector 9. In 2008, Tom Flint
In April 2015, Murakami was named one of the TIME adaptedOn Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful
100's most inuential people. In November 2016, he was April Morninginto a short lm. The lm was screened
awarded the Danish Hans Christian Andersen Literature at the 2008 CON-CAN Movie Festival. The lm was
Award.* [54]* [55] viewed, voted, and commented upon as part of the audi-
ence award for the movie festival.* [63]
It was announced in July 2008 that French-Vietnamese
5 Films and other adaptations director Tran Anh Hung would direct an adaptation of
Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood.* [64] The lm was
Murakami's rst novel, Hear the Wind Sing (Kaze no released in Japan on December 11, 2010.* [65]
uta o kike), was adapted by Japanese director Kazuki In 2010, Stephen Earnhart adapted The Wind-Up Bird
mori. The lm was released in 1981 and distributed Chronicle into a two-hour multimedia stage presentation.
by Art Theatre Guild.* [56] Naoto Yamakawa directed The show opened January 12, 2010, as part of the Public
two short lms Attack on the Bakery (released in 1982) Theater's "Under the Radar" festival at the Ohio Theater
and A Girl, She is 100 Percent (released in 1983), based in New York City,* [66] presented in association with The
on Murakami's short stories The Second Bakery At- Asia Society and the Baryshnikov Arts Center. The show
tackandOn Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beau- had its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Fes-
tiful April Morningrespectively.* [57] Japanese director tival on August 21, 2011.* [67] The presentation incor-
Jun Ichikawa adapted Murakami's short story "Tony Tak- porates live actors, video projection, traditional Japanese
itani" into a 75-minute feature.* [58] The lm played at puppetry, and immersive soundscapes to render the sur-
various lm festivals and was released in New York and real landscape of the original work.
Los Angeles on July 29, 2005. The original short story,
Memoranda, a 2017 video game had been inspired by
translated into English by Jay Rubin, is available in the
several Murakami short stories, mainly from Blind Wil-
April 15, 2002 issue of The New Yorker, as a stand-alone
low, Sleeping Woman and The Elephant Vanishes, and
book published by Clovereld Press, and part of Blind
features several Murakami characters, including Mizuki
Willow, Sleeping Woman by Knopf. In 1998, the Ger-
Ando.* [68]
man lm Der Eisbaer (Polar Bear), written and directed
by Granz Henman, used elements of Murakami's short
story The Second Bakery Attackin three intersect-
ing story lines. The Second Bakery Attackwas also 6 Personal life
adapted as a short lm in 2010,* [59] directed by Carlos
Cuarn, starring Kirsten Dunst. After receiving the Gunzo Award for his 1979 literary
Murakami's work was also adapted for the stage in a work Hear the Wind Sing, Murakami did not aspire to
2003 play entitled The Elephant Vanishes, co-produced meet other writers. Aside from Sarah Lawrence's Mary
by Britain's Complicite company and Japan's Setagaya Morris, whom he briey mentions in his memoir What I
Public Theatre. The production, directed by Simon Talk About When I Talk About Running alongside Joyce
McBurney, adapted three of Murakami's short stories Carol Oates and Toni Morrison, Murakami was never
and received acclaim for its unique blending of multi- a part of a community of writers, his reason being that
media (video, music, and innovative sound design) with he was a loner and was never fond of groups, schools,
actor-driven physical theater (mime, dance, and even ac- and literary circles.* [22] When working on a book, Mu-
robatic wire work).* [60] On tour, the play was performed rakami states that he relies on his wife, who is always his
in Japanese, with supertitle translations for European and rst reader.* [22] While he never acquainted himself with
American audiences. many writers, Murakami enjoys the works of Ryu Mu-
8.3 Essays and nonction 5

rakami and Banana Yoshimoto.* [22] 8.2.1 Collections

Haruki Murakami is a fan of crime novels. During his
8.2.2 List of stories
high school days while living in Kobe, he would buy pa-
perbacks from second hand book stores and learned to
read English. The rst book that he read in English was 8.3 Essays and nonction
The Name is Archer, written by Ross Macdonald in 1955.
Other writers he was interested in included Leo Tolstoy Murakami has published more than 40 books of non-
and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.* [22] ction. Among them are:

Murakami also has a passion for listening to music, es- Other books include:
pecially classical and jazz. When he was around 15, he
began to develop an interest in jazz after attending an Art
Blakey and the Jazz Messengers concert in Kobe.* [69] He 9 See also
later opened the Peter Cat, a coeehouse and jazz bar.
Murakami has said that music, like writing, is a mental
journey.* [22] At one time he aspired to be a musician, 10 References
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think that is all Japan can do apologise until the coun- I'm a kind of outcast of the Japanese literary world. I
tries say: 'We don't necessarily get over it completely, but have my own readers But critics, writers, many of them
you have apologized enough. Alright, let's leave it now. don't like [Link] is that?I have no idea! I have been
*
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situation's almost the same. I'm kind of an ugly duckling.
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Ny Yku tank no higeki) was rst
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the story was extracted, edited and expanded intoCrabs
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rector Interviews The Adapter/Director. Steppenwolf tirety has never been published in English. The young man
Theatre. Retrieved September 1, 2008. in the story is at a caf with Murakami himself. He mailed
Murakami one of his short stories (the content of which
[63] Flint, Tom (2008). On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl
the real-life Murakami later turned into Crabs), and
One Beautiful April Morning. CON-CAN Movie Festival.
Murakami, charmed by the young man's interesting hand-
Retrieved July 9, 2008.
writing and somewhat impressed with the story itself, read
[64] Gray, Jason (2008). Tran to adapt Norwegian Wood for all 70 pages and sent him a letter of suggestions. Base-
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August 1, 2008. coee.

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gyakush, literally The TV People Strike Back) but
[66]The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. theatermania. Retrieved received this shorter nal title for all further appearances.
28 December 2013. (See also ja:TV in Japanese.)
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[80] An earlier version ofAeroplanewas published in 1987, 12 External links

then this rewritten version published in 1989. (See also ja:
Murakami's Cats
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Like Burt Bacharach?" (
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1983 as a dierent version (whose title didn't bear a
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Japanese.)
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Pintor, [Link] Lynch y Haruki Murakami, la The 10 Best Haruki Murakami Books (by Mu-
llama en el umbral,in: [Link]., Universo Lynch. rakami scholar Matthew C. Strecher), Publishers
Internacional Sitges Film Festival-Calamar, 2007 Weekly, August 8, 2014
(ISBN 84-96235-16-5)
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Rubin, Jay. Haruki Murakami and the Music of
Words. Harvill Press, 2002 (ISBN 1-86046-952-3)
Exorcising Ghosts - Haruki Murakami resources
Strecher, Matthew Carl. The Wind-Up Bird Chroni- (bibliography, adaptations, press review)
cle Readers Guide. Continuum Pubublishing Group,
2002 (ISBN 0-8264-5239-6) About the music from Haruki Murakami books

Strecher, Matthew Carl. Dances with Sheep: The (in Japanese) Japanese fan's website
Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki.
University of Michigan/Monographs in Japanese Multimedia
Studies, 2001 (ISBN 1-929280-07-6)
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(ISBN 978-0-674-02833-3)
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