Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. For “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,” he was awarded the Yomiuri Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima... Read more
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. For “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,” he was awarded the Yomiuri Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, and Kobo Abe. Also included among his many honors are the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award (Ireland, 2006), the Franz Kafka Prize (Czech Republic, 2006), and the Asahi Prize (Japan, 2006). Murakami’s work has been translated into more than forty languages.