What is Haruki Murakami?
{{Japanese name|Murakami}} {{Infobox Writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox Writer/doc]] --> | name = Haruki Murakami | image = HarukiMurakami.png | imagesize = 300px | caption = Murakami giving a lecture at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] in 2005. | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|1|12|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Kyoto]], [[Japan]] | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Author, novelist | nationality = [[Japan]]ese | period = | genre = Fiction, [[surrealist]], postmodern | subject = | movement = | website = {{url|http://www.harukimurakami.com/}} | signature = }} {{nihongo|'''Haruki Murakami'''|村上 春樹|Murakami Haruki|extra=born January 12, 1949}} is a [[Japan]]ese [[author]] and [[translator]]. He was born on January 12, 1949 in [[Kyoto]], [[Japan]]. In 2006 he won the [[Franz Kafka Prize]] for his book ''[[Kafka on the Shore]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/franz-kafka-society-lauds-japanese-writer-murakami|title=Franz Kafka Society lauds Japanese writer Murakami - Radio Prague|website=Radio Praha|date=31 October 2006}}</ref> ==Works== ===Novels=== * ''[[Hear the Wind Sing]]'' (1979) * ''[[Pinball, 1973]]'' (1980) * ''[[A Wild Sheep Chase]]'' (1982) * ''[[Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World]]'' (1985) * ''[[Norwegian Wood (novel)|Norwegian Wood]]'' (1987) * ''[[Dance Dance Dance]]'' (1988) * ''[[South of the Border, West of the Sun]]'' (1992) * ''[[The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle]]'' (1995) * ''[[Sputnik Sweetheart]]'' (1999) * ''[[Kafka on the Shore]]'' (2002) * ''[[After Dark]]'' (2004) * ''[[1Q84]]'' (2009) * ''[[Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage]]'' (2013) ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline|Murakami Haruki}} {{World Fantasy Award Best Novel}} {{authority control}} {{person-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Murakami, Haruki}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:1949 births]] [[Category:Japanese translators]] [