I would add Murakami to that list. In my experience, Japanese doesn&#x27;t translate all that well to English - although some Murakami&#x27;s works, like &quot;South of the Border&quot;, feels very close to Fitzgerald. I&#x27;m now a little surprised to realize that &quot;Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World&quot; was actually written before both it, and &quot;Norwegian Wood&quot;.<p>At least for &quot;Norwegian Wood&quot;, I found the translation to Norwegian to &quot;feel&quot; better than (the excerpts I&#x27;ve read) of the English translation. It&#x27;s hard for me to say if that is because Norwegian is my first language, and I learned Japanese from living in Japan, or because there are some parallels between terse Nordic prose and poetry and Japanese. I could certainly see the Nordic sagas working &quot;better&quot; in Japanese than in English.