Haruki Murakami
1937 – present · b. Fushimi-ku
Japan
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Biography
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
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Awards
- Princess of Asturias Literary Prize (2023)No list
- Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (2022)No list
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2018)No list
- Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award (2016)No list
- Time 100 (2015)No list
- Ignotus Award for Best Foreign Novel (2012)No list
- Hideo Kobayashi Sho (2012)No list
- Catalonia International Prize (2011)No list
Notable Works
- 1Q84
- Kafka on the Shore
- Norwegian Wood
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
- A Wild Sheep Chase
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
- Killing Commendatore
Education
- Ashiya City Seido Junior High School
- Kobe High School
- Nishinomiya City Hamawaki Elementary School
- Waseda University
- Nishinomiya City Kokushien Elementary School
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