Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami 村上 春樹
Murakami in 2005, giving a lecture at MIT.
Born	(1949-01-12) January 12, 1949 Kyoto, Japan
Occupation	Novelist, short-story writer, essayist, translator
Nationality	Japanese
Genre	Fiction, surrealism, magical realism, science fiction, Bildungsroman, picaresque, realism
Notable works	A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) Norwegian Wood (1987) The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994-1995) Kafka on the Shore (2002) 1Q84 (2009–2010)
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Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹, Murakami Haruki, January 12, 1949) is a contemporary Japanese writer. His books and stories have been bestsellers in Japan as well as internationally, with his work being translated into 50 languages and selling millions of copies outside his native country. The critical acclaim for his fiction and non-fiction has led to numerous awards, in Japan and internationally, including the World Fantasy Award (2006) and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (2006). His oeuvre received, for example, the Franz Kafka Prize (2006) and the Jerusalem Prize (2009).

Murakami's most notable works include A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95), Kafka on the Shore (2002), and 1Q84 (2009–10). He has also translated into Japanese English works by writers ranging from Raymond Carver to J. D. Salinger. His fiction, still criticized by Japan's literary establishment as un-Japanese, was influenced by Western writers from Chandler to Vonnegut by way of Brautigan. It is frequently surrealistic and melancholic or fatalistic, marked by a Kafkaesque rendition of the "recurrent themes of alienation and loneliness" he weaves into his narratives. He is also considered an important figure in postmodern literature. Steven Poole of The Guardian praised Murakami as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his works and achievements.

Biography

Murakami was born in Kyoto, Japan during the post–World War II baby boom and raised in Shukugawa (Nishinomiya), Ashiya and Kobe. He is an only child. His father was the son of a Buddhist priest, and his mother the daughter of an Osaka merchant. Both taught Japanese literature.

Since childhood, Murakami similarly to Kōbō Abe has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western as well as Russian music and literature. He grew up reading a wide range of works by European and American writers, such as Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, Charles Dickens, Kurt Vonnegut, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Brautigan and Jack Kerouac. These Western influences distinguish Murakami from the majority of other Japanese writers.

Murakami studied drama at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he met his wife, Yoko. His first job was at a record store, much like Toru Watanabe, the narrator of Norwegian Wood. Shortly before finishing his studies, Murakami opened a coffee house and jazz bar, the Peter Cat, in Kokubunji, Tokyo, which he ran with his wife, from 1974 to 1981—again not unlike the protagonist in his later novel South of the Border, West of the Sun.

Murakami is a serious marathon runner and triathlon enthusiast, though he did not start running until he was 33 years old. On 23 June 1996, he completed his first ultramarathon, a 100 km race around Lake Saroma in Hokkaido, Japan. He discusses his relationship with running in his 2008 memoir What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.

Writing career

Trilogy of the Rat

Murakami began to write fiction when he was 29. "Before that", he said, "I didn't write anything. I was just one of those ordinary people. I was running a jazz club, and I didn't create anything at all." He was inspired to write his first novel, Hear the Wind Sing (1979), while watching a baseball game. In 1978, Murakami was in Jingu Stadium watching a game between 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 double, Murakami suddenly realized that he could write a novel. He went home and began writing that night. Murakami worked on Hear the Wind Sing for ten months in very brief stretches after working days at the bar. He completed the novel and sent it to the only literary contest that would accept a work of that length, winning first prize.

Murakami's initial success with Hear the Wind Sing encouraged him to continue writing. A year later, he published a sequel, Pinball, 1973. In 1982, he published A Wild Sheep Chase, a critical success. Hear the Wind Sing, Pinball, 1973, and A Wild Sheep Chase form the Trilogy of the Rat (a sequel, Dance, Dance, Dance, was written later but is not considered part of the series), centered on the same unnamed narrator and his friend, "the Rat." The first two novels were not widely available in English translation outside Japan until 2015, although an English edition, translated by Alfred Birnbaum with extensive notes, had been published by Kodansha as part of a series intended for Japanese students of English. Murakami considers his first two novels to be "immature" and "flimsy," and has not been eager to have them translated into English. A Wild Sheep Chase, he says, was "the first book where I could feel a kind of sensation, the joy of telling a story. When you read a good story, you just keep reading. When I write a good story, I just keep writing."

Wider recognition

In 1985, Murakami wrote Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, a dream-like fantasy that took the magical elements of his work to a new extreme. 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 millions of copies among young Japanese.

Norwegian Wood propelled the barely known Murakami into the spotlight. He was mobbed at airports and other public places, leading to his departure from Japan in 1986. Murakami traveled through Europe and eventually settled in the United States.

Murakami was a writing fellow at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During this time he wrote South of the Border, West of the Sun and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

From "detachment" to "commitment"

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995) is a novel that fuses the realistic and fantastic, and contains elements of physical violence. It is also more socially conscious than his previous work, dealing in part with the difficult topic of war crimes in Manchukuo (Northeast China). The novel won the Yomiuri Prize, awarded by one of his harshest former critics, Kenzaburō Ōe, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994.

The processing of collective trauma soon became an important theme in Murakami's writing, which had previously been more personal in nature. Murakami returned to Japan in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake and the Aum Shinrikyo gas attack. He came to terms with these events with his first work of non-fiction, Underground, and the short story collection after the quake. Underground consists largely of interviews of victims of the gas attacks in the Tokyo subway system.

Murakami himself mentions that he changed his position from one of "detachment" to one of "commitment" after staying in the USA in 1991. "His early books, he said, originated in an individual darkness, while his later works tap into the darkness found in society and history."

English translations of many of his short stories written between 1983 and 1990 have been collected in The Elephant Vanishes. Murakami has also translated many works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, Truman Capote, John Irving, and Paul Theroux, among others, into Japanese.

Murakami took an active role in translation of his work into English, encouraging "adaptations" of his texts to American reality rather than direct translation. Some of his works which appeared in German turned out to be translations from English rather than from Japanese (South of the Border, West of the Sun, 2000; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 2000s), encouraged by Murakami himself. Both were later re-translated from Japanese.

Since 2000

Sputnik Sweetheart was first published in 1999, followed by Kafka on the Shore in 2002, with the English translation following in 2005. Kafka on the Shore won the World Fantasy Award for Novels in 2006. The English version of his novel After Dark was released in May 2007. It was chosen by the New York Times as a "notable book of the year". In late 2005, Murakami published a collection of short stories titled Tōkyō Kitanshū, or 東京奇譚集, which translates loosely as "Mysteries of Tokyo." A collection of the English versions of twenty-four short stories, titled Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, was published in August 2006. This collection includes both older works from the 1980s as well as some of Murakami's more recent short stories, including all five that appear in Tōkyō Kitanshū.

In 2002, Murakami published the anthology Birthday Stories, which collects short stories on the theme of birthdays. The collection includes work by Russell Banks, Ethan Canin, Raymond Carver, David Foster Wallace, Denis Johnson, Claire Keegan, Andrea Lee, Daniel Lyons, Lynda Sexson, Paul Theroux, and William Trevor, as well as a story by Murakami himself. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, containing tales about his experience as a marathon runner and a triathlete, was published in Japan in 2007, with English translations released in the U.K. and the U.S. in 2008. The title is a play on that of Raymond Carver's short story collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.

Shinchosha Publishing published Murakami's novel 1Q84 in Japan on May 29, 2009. 1Q84 is pronounced as 'ichi kyū hachi yon', the same as 1984, as 9 is also pronounced as 'kyū' in Japanese. The book was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011. However, after the anti-Japanese demonstrations, in China, in 2012, Murakami's books were removed from sale there, along with those of other Japanese authors. Murakami criticized the China-Japan political territorial dispute, characterizing the overwrought nationalistic response as "cheap liquor" which politicians were giving to the public. In April 2013, he published his novel "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage". It became an international best seller but received mixed reviews.

Writing style

Most of Haruki Murakami's works use first-person narrative in the tradition of the Japanese I Novel. He states that because family plays a significant role in traditional Japanese literature, any main character who is independent becomes a man who values freedom and solitude over intimacy. Also notable is Murakami's unique humor, as seen in his 2000 short story collection, After the Quake. In the story "Superfrog Saves Tokyo", the protagonist is confronted with a 6 foot tall frog that talks about the destruction of Tokyo over a cup of tea. In spite of the story's sober tone, Murakami feels the reader should be entertained once the seriousness of a subject has been broached. Another notable feature of Murakami's stories is the comments that come from the main characters as to how strange the story presents itself. Murakami explains that his characters experience what he experiences as he writes, which could be compared to a movie set where the walls and props are all fake.

Many of his novels have themes and titles that invoke classical music, such as the three books making up The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: The Thieving Magpie (after Rossini's opera), Bird as Prophet (after a piano piece by Robert Schumann usually known in English as The Prophet Bird), and The Bird-Catcher (a character in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute). Some of his novels take their titles from songs: Dance, Dance, Dance (after The Dells' 1957 B-side song, although it is often thought it was titled after the Beach Boys' 1964 tune), Norwegian Wood (after The Beatles' song) and South of the Border, West of the Sun (after the song "South of the Border").

Some analyses see aspects of shamanism in his writing. In a 2000 article, Susan Fisher connected Japanese folk religion or Japanese shamanism with some elements of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, such as a descent into a dry well. At an October 2013 symposium held at the University of Hawaii, associate professor of Japanese Nobuko Ochner opined "there were many descriptions of traveling in a parallel world as well as characters who have some connection to shamanism" in Murakami's works.

Recognition

Prizes for books

• 1979: Gunzo Award (best first novel) for Hear the Wind Sing
• 1982: Noma Literary Prize (best newcomer) for A Wild Sheep Chase
• 1985: Tanizaki Prize for Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
• 1995: Yomiuri Prize (best novel) for The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
• 1999: Kuwabara Takeo Prize for Underground
• 2006: World Fantasy Award (best novel) for Kafka on the Shore
• 2006: Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award for Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Murakami was also awarded the 2007 Kiriyama Prize for Fiction for his collection of short stories Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, but according to the prize's official website, Murakami "declined to accept the award for reasons of personal principle".

Prizes for Murakami

In 2006, Murakami became the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize.

In September 2007, he received an honorary doctorate of Letters from the University of Liège, one from Princeton University in June 2008, and one from Tufts University in May 2014.

In January 2009 Murakami received the Jerusalem Prize, a biennial literary award given to writers whose work deals with themes of human freedom, society, politics, and government. There were protests in Japan and elsewhere against his attending the February award ceremony in Israel, including threats to boycott his work as a response against Israel's recent bombing of Gaza. Murakami chose to attend the ceremony, but gave a speech to the gathered Israeli dignitaries harshly criticizing Israeli policies. Murakami said, "Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us."

In 2011, Murakami donated his €80,000 winnings from the International Catalunya Prize (from the Generalitat of Catalunya) to the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and to those affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Accepting the award, he said in his speech that the situation at the Fukushima plant was "the second major nuclear disaster that the Japanese people have experienced... however, this time it was not a bomb being dropped upon us, but a mistake committed by our very own hands." According to Murakami, the Japanese people should have rejected nuclear power after having "learned through the sacrifice of the hibakusha just how badly radiation leaves scars on the world and human wellbeing".

In recent years, Haruki Murakami has often been mentioned as a possible recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Nonetheless, since all nomination records are sealed for 50 years from the awarding of the prize, it is pure speculation. When asked about the possibility of being awarded the Nobel Prize, Murakami responded with a laugh saying "No, I don't want prizes. That means you're finished."

In October 2014, he was awarded the Welt-Literaturpreis.

In April 2015, Murakami was named one of the TIME 100's most influential people. In November 2015, he was awarded the Danish Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

Films and other adaptations

Murakami's first novel, Hear the Wind Sing (Kaze no uta o kike), was adapted by Japanese director Kazuki Ōmori. The film was released in 1981 and distributed by Art Theatre Guild. Naoto Yamakawa directed two short films Attack on the Bakery (released in 1982) and A Girl, She is 100 Percent (released in 1983), based on Murakami's short stories "The Second Bakery Attack" and "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" respectively. Japanese director Jun Ichikawa adapted Murakami's short story "Tony Takitani" into a 75-minute feature. The film played at various film festivals and was released in New York and Los Angeles on July 29, 2005. The original short story, translated into English by Jay Rubin, is available in the April 15, 2002 issue of The New Yorker, as a stand-alone book published by Cloverfield Press, and part of Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Knopf. In 1998, the German film Der Eisbaer (Polar Bear), written and directed by Granz Henman, used elements of Murakami's short story "The Second Bakery Attack" in three intersecting story lines. "The Second Bakery Attack" was also adapted as a short film in 2010, directed by Carlos Cuaron, starring Kirsten Dunst.

Murakami's work was also adapted for the stage in a 2003 play entitled The Elephant Vanishes, co-produced by Britain's Complicite company and Japan's Setagaya Public Theatre. The production, directed by Simon McBurney, adapted three of Murakami's short stories and received acclaim for its unique blending of multimedia (video, music, and innovative sound design) with actor-driven physical theater (mime, dance, and even acrobatic wire work). On tour, the play was performed in Japanese, with supertitle translations for European and American audiences.

Two stories from Murakami's book after the quake—"Honey Pie" and "Superfrog Saves Tokyo"—have been adapted for the stage and directed by Frank Galati. Entitled after the quake, the play was first performed at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in association with La Jolla Playhouse, and opened on October 12, 2007, at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. In 2008, Galati also adapted and directed a theatrical version of Kafka on the Shore, which first ran at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company from September to November.

On Max Richter's 2006 album Songs from Before, Robert Wyatt reads passages from Murakami's novels. In 2007, Robert Logevall adapted "All God's Children Can Dance" into a film, with a soundtrack composed by American jam band Sound Tribe Sector 9. In 2008, Tom Flint adapted "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" into a short film. The film was screened at the 2008 CON-CAN Movie Festival. The film was viewed, voted, and commented upon as part of the audience award for the movie festival.

It was announced in July 2008 that French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung would direct an adaptation of Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood. The film was released in Japan on December 11, 2010.

In 2010, Stephen Earnhart adapted The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle into a two-hour multimedia stage presentation. The show opened January 12, 2010, as part of the Public Theater's "Under the Radar" festival at the Ohio Theater in New York City, presented in association with The Asia Society and the Baryshnikov Arts Center. The show had its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival on August 21, 2011. The presentation incorporates live actors, video projection, traditional Japanese puppetry, and immersive soundscapes to render the surreal landscape of the original work.

Musician Dre Carlan adapted each short story in Murakami's after the quake collection into a six-song EP entitled .DC: JPN (after the quake 2011) in March 2011 following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami to help benefit the relief efforts.

Personal life

After receiving the Gunzo Award for his 1979 literary work Hear the Wind Sing, Murakami did not aspire to meet other writers. Aside from Sarah Lawrence's Mary Morris, whom he briefly mentions in his memoir What I Talk About When I Talk About Running alongside Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison, Murakami was never a part of a community of writers, his reason being that he was a loner and was never fond of groups, schools, and literary circles. When working on a book, Murakami states that he relies on his wife, who is always his first reader. While he never acquainted himself with many writers, Murakami enjoys the works of Ryu Murakami and Banana Yoshimoto.

Haruki Murakami is a fan of crime novels. During his high school days while living in Kobe, he would buy paperbacks from second hand book stores and learned to read English. The first book that he read in English was The Name is Archer, written by Ross Macdonald in 1955. Other writers he was interested in included Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Murakami also has a passion for listening to music, especially 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. He later opened the Peter Cat, a coffeehouse and jazz bar. Murakami has said that music, like writing, is a mental journey. At one time he aspired to be a musician, but because he could not play instruments well he decided to become a writer instead.

Bibliography

This is an incomplete bibliography as not all works published by Murakami in Japanese have been translated into English. Kanji titles are given with Hepburn romanization. (Original titles entirely in transcribed English are given as "katakana / romaji = English".)

Novels

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Original publication		English publication
Title	Year	Title	Year
風の歌を聴け Kaze no uta o kike	1979	Hear the Wind Sing	1987/2015
1973年のピンボール 1973-nen no pinbōru	1980	Pinball, 1973	1985/2015
羊をめぐる冒険 Hitsuji o meguru bōken	1982	A Wild Sheep Chase	1989
世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド Sekai no owari to Hādo-boirudo Wandārando	1985	Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World	1991
ノルウェイの森 Noruwei no mori	1987	Norwegian Wood	1989 (Birnbaum's translation); 2000 (Rubin's translation)
ダンス・ダンス・ダンス Dansu dansu dansu	1988	Dance Dance Dance	1994
国境の南、太陽の西 Kokkyō no minami, taiyō no nishi	1992	South of the Border, West of the Sun	2000
ねじまき鳥クロニクル Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru	1994–1995	The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle	1997
スプートニクの恋人 Supūtoniku no koibito	1999	Sputnik Sweetheart	2001
海辺のカフカ Umibe no Kafuka	2002	Kafka on the Shore	2005
アフターダーク Afutā dāku	2004	After Dark	2007
1Q84 Ichi-kyū-hachi-yon	2009–2010	1Q84	2011
色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年 Shikisai o motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to, kare no junrei no toshi	2013	Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage	2014

Short stories

Most short stories have been collected in four volumes (three translated):

Original publication		English publication
Title	Year	Title	Year
象の消滅 Zō no shōmetsu	(2005)	The Elephant Vanishes (17 stories, 1980–1991)	1993
神の子どもたちはみな踊る Kami no kodomo-tachi wa mina odoru	2000	after the quake (6 stories, 1999–2000)	2002
めくらやなぎと眠る女 Mekurayanagi to nemuru onna	(2009)	Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (24 stories, 1980–2005)	2006
女のいない男たち Onna no inai otokotachi	2014	Men Without Women (6 stories, 2013–2014)	2017

Essays and nonfiction

Murakami has published more than forty books of non-fiction. Among them are:

English publication		Japanese publication
Year	Title	Year	Title
N/A	Walk, Don't Run	1981	ウォーク・ドント・ラン : 村上龍 vs 村上春樹 Wōku donto ran = Walk, don't run: Murakami Ryū vs Murakami Haruki
N/A	Rain, Burning Sun (Come Rain or Come Shine)	1990	雨天炎天 Uten Enten
N/A	Portrait in Jazz	1997	ポ－トレイト・イン・ジャズ Pōtoreito in jazu = Portrait in jazz
2000	Underground	1997	アンダーグラウンド Andāguraundo = Underground
		1998	約束された場所で―underground 2 Yakusoku sareta basho de: Underground 2
N/A	Portrait in Jazz 2	2001	ポ－トレイト・イン・ジャズ 2 Pōtoreito in jazu 2 = Portrait in jazz 2
2008	What I Talk About When I Talk About Running	2007	走ることについて語るときに僕の語ること Hashiru koto ni tsuite kataru toki ni boku no kataru koto
N/A	It Ain't Got that Swing (If It Don't Mean a Thing)	2008	意味がなければスイングはない Imi ga nakereba suingu wa nai
N/A	Novelist as a profession	2015	ja:職業としての小説家 Shokugyō to shite no shōsetsuka
2016	Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa	N/A
2016	Haruki Murakami Goes to Meet Hayao Kawai, ISBN 978-3-85630-764-6	N/A

Other books include:

Original publication		English publication
Title	Year	Title	Year
バースデイ・ストーリーズ Bāsudei sutōrīzu = Birthday stories	2002	Birthday Stories (anthology selected and translated by Murakami, featuring one original story later collected in Blind Willow)	2004
ふしぎな図書館 Fushigi na toshokan	2005	The Strange Library (illustrated children's novella, revised from his 1982 short story Toshokan kitan)	2014

These stories were originally published individually in various magazines:

Original publication		English publication
Year	Title	Title	Appears in
1980	中国行きのスロウ・ボート Chūgoku-yuki no surō bōto	A Slow Boat to China	The Elephant Vanishes
	貧乏な叔母さんの話 Binbō na obasan no hanashi	A 'Poor Aunt' Story (The New Yorker, December 3, 2001)	Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
1981	ニューヨーク炭鉱の悲劇 Nyū Yōku tankō no higeki	New York Mining Disaster [1990] (The New Yorker, January 11, 1999)
	スパゲティーの年に Supagetī no toshi ni	The Year of Spaghetti (The New Yorker, November 21, 2005)
	四月のある晴れた朝に100パーセントの女の子に出会うことについて Shigatsu no aru hareta asa ni 100-paasento no onna no ko ni deau koto ni tsuite	On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning	The Elephant Vanishes
	かいつぶり Kaitsuburi	Dabchick	Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
	カンガルー日和 Kangarū biyori	A Perfect Day for Kangaroos
	カンガルー通信 Kangarū tsūshin	The Kangaroo Communiqué	The Elephant Vanishes
1982	午後の最後の芝生 Gogo no saigo no shibafu	The Last Lawn of the Afternoon
1983	鏡 Kagami	The Mirror	Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
	とんがり焼の盛衰 Tongari-yaki no seisui	The Rise and Fall of Sharpie Cakes
	螢 Hotaru	Firefly
	納屋を焼く Naya o yaku	Barn Burning (The New Yorker, November 2, 1992)	The Elephant Vanishes
1984	蟹 (within 野球場) Kani (within Yakyūjō)	Crabs [2003]	Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
	嘔吐1979 Ōto 1979	Nausea 1979
	ハンティング・ナイフ Hantingu naifu = Hunting knife	Hunting Knife (The New Yorker, November 17, 2003)
	踊る小人 Odoru kobito	The Dancing Dwarf	The Elephant Vanishes
1985	レーダーホーゼン Rēdāhōzen = Lederhosen	Lederhosen
	パン屋再襲撃 Pan'ya saishūgeki	The Second Bakery Attack
	象の消滅 Zō no shōmetsu	The Elephant Vanishes (The New Yorker, November 18, 1991)
	ファミリー・アフェア Famirī afea = Family affair	Family Affair
1986	ローマ帝国の崩壊・一八八一年のインディアン蜂起・ヒットラーのポーランド侵入・そして強風世界 Rōma-teikoku no hōkai・1881-nen no Indian hōki・Hittorā no Pōrando shinnyū・soshite kyōfū sekai	The Fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, and the Realm of Raging Winds
	ねじまき鳥と火曜日の女たち Nejimaki-dori to kayōbi no onnatachi	The Wind-up Bird And Tuesday's Women (The New Yorker, November 26, 1990)
1989	眠り Nemuri	Sleep (The New Yorker, March 30, 1992)
	TVピープル TV pīpuru = TV people	TV People (The New Yorker, September 10, 1990)
	飛行機―あるいは彼はいかにして詩を読むようにひとりごとを言ったか Hikōki: arui wa kare wa ika ni shite shi o yomu yō ni hitorigoto o itta ka	Aeroplane: Or, How He Talked to Himself as if Reciting Poetry [1987] (The New Yorker, July 1, 2002)	Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
	我らの時代のフォークロア―高度資本主義前史 Warera no jidai no fōkuroa: kōdo shihonshugi zenshi	A Folklore for My Generation: A Prehistory of Late-Stage Capitalism
1990	トニー滝谷 Tonii Takitani	Tony Takitani (The New Yorker, April 15, 2002)
1991	沈黙 Chinmoku	The Silence	The Elephant Vanishes
	窓 Mado	A Window [1982]
	緑色の獣 Midori-iro no kemono	The Little Green Monster
	氷男 Kōri otoko	The Ice Man	Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
	人喰い猫 Hito-kui neko	Man-Eating Cats (The New Yorker, December 4, 2000)
1995	めくらやなぎと、眠る女 Mekurayanagi to, nemuru onna	Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman [1983]
1996	七番目の男 Nanabanme no otoko	The Seventh Man
1999	UFOが釧路に降りる UFO ga Kushiro ni oriru	UFO in Kushiro (The New Yorker, March 19, 2001)	after the quake
	アイロンのある風景 Airon no aru fūkei	Landscape with Flatiron
	神の子どもたちはみな踊る Kami no kodomotachi wa mina odoru	All God's Children Can Dance
	タイランド Tairando = Thailand	Thailand
	かえるくん、東京を救う Kaeru-kun, Tōkyō o sukuu	Super-Frog Saves Tokyo
2000	蜂蜜パイ Hachimitsu pai	Honey Pie (The New Yorker, August 20, 2001)
2002	バースデイ・ガール Bāsudei gāru = Birthday girl	Birthday Girl	Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
2005	偶然の旅人 Gūzen no tabibito	Chance Traveller
	ハナレイ・ベイ Hanarei Bei = Hanalei Bay	Hanalei Bay
	どこであれそれが見つかりそうな場所で Doko de are sore ga mitsukarisō na basho de	Where I'm Likely to Find It (The New Yorker, May 2, 2005)
	日々移動する腎臓のかたちをした石 Hibi idō suru jinzō no katachi o shita ishi	The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day
	品川猿 Shinagawa saru	A Shinagawa Monkey (The New Yorker, February 13, 2006)
2011	—	Town of Cats (Excerpt from 1Q84) (The New Yorker, September 5, 2011)
2013	—	A Walk to Kobe (Granta, issue 124, Summer 2013)
	—	Samsa In Love (The New Yorker, October 28, 2013)
	—	Drive My Car
2014	—	Yesterday (The New Yorker, June 9, 2014)
	—	Scheherazade (The New Yorker, October 13, 2014)
2015	—	Kino (The New Yorker, February 23, 2015)

Translations

• C. D. B. Bryan – The Great Dethriffe
• Truman Capote – A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, Breakfast at Tiffany's, I Remember Grandpa, Children on Their Birthdays
• Raymond Carver – All Works of Raymond Carver
• Raymond Chandler – Farewell, My Lovely, The Long Goodbye,The Little Sister
• Bill Crow – Jazz Anecdotes, From Birdland to Broadway
• Terry Farish – The Cat Who Liked Potato Soup
• F. Scott Fitzgerald – My Lost City, The Great Gatsby
• Jim Fusilli – The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds
• Mikal Gilmore – Shot in the Heart
• Mark Helprin – Swan Lake
• John Irving – Setting Free the Bears
• Ursula K. Le Guin – Catwings, Catwings Return, Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings, Jane on her Own
• Tim O'Brien – The Nuclear Age, The Things They Carried, July, July
• Grace Paley – Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, The Little Disturbances of Man
• J. D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
• Shel Silverstein – The Giving Tree
• Mark Strand – Mr. and Mrs. Baby and Other Stories
• Paul Theroux – World's End and Other Stories
• Chris Van Allsburg – The Polar Express, The Wretched Stone, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, Ben's Dream, Two Bad Ants, The Sweetest Fig, The Widow's Broom, The Stranger, The Wreck of the Zephyr, The Garden of Abdul Gasazi
• Geoff Dyer – But Beautiful, A Book about Jazz

Translators of Murakami works

Below is a list of translators by language, in alphabetical order:

• Albanian – Etta Klosi
• Arabic – Saeed Alganmi, Iman Harrz Allah
• Armenian – Alexander Aghabekyan
• Azerbaijani – Gunel Movlud
• Basque – Ibon Uribarri
• Bengali - G.H. Kundu
• Bosnian – Dušan Janić, Nura Kapić
• Bulgarian – Ljudmil Ljutskanov, Dora Barova
• Catalan – Albert Nolla, Concepció Iribarren, Imma Estany, Jordi Mas López
• Chinese – 賴明珠 / Lai Ming-zhu (Taiwan); 林少华 / Lin Shaohua, 施小炜 / Shi Xiaowei (Chinese mainland); 葉惠 / Ye Hui (Hong Kong)
• Croatian – Maja Šoljan, Vojo Šindolić, Mate Maras, Maja Tančik, Dinko Telećan
• Czech – Tomáš Jurkovič, Klára Macúchová
• Danish – Mette Holm
• Dutch – Elbrich Fennema, Jacques Westerhoven, L. van Haute
• English – Alfred Birnbaum, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel, Hideo Levy (USA); Theodore W. Goossen (Canada)
• Estonian – Kati Lindström, Kristina Uluots
• Faroese – Pauli Nielsen
• Finnish – Leena Tamminen, Ilkka Malinen, Juhani Lindholm, Raisa Porrasmaa
• French – Corinne Atlan, Hélène Morita, Patrick De Vos, Véronique Brindeau, Karine Chesneau, Rose-Marie Makino-Fayolle, Dominique Letellier
• Galician – Mona Imai, Gabriel Álvarez Martínez
• Georgian – Irakli Beriashvili; Janri and Luiza Lodeshvili; Tamar Subeliani
• German – Ursula Gräfe, Nora Bierich, Sabine Mangold, Jürgen Stalph, Annelie Ortmanns
• Greek – Maria Aggelidou, Thanasis Douvris, Leonidas Karatzas, Juri Kovalenko, Stelios Papazafeiropoulos, Giorgos Voudiklaris
• Hebrew – Einat Cooper, Dr. Michal Daliot-Bul, Yonatan Friedman (from English)
• Hungarian – Erdős György, Horváth Kriszta, Komáromy Rudolf, Nagy Mónika, Nagy Anita
• Icelandic – Uggi Jónsson
• Indonesian – Jonjon Johana
• Italian – Giorgio Amitrano, Antonietta Pastore, Mimma De Petra
• Korean – Kim Choon-Mie, Kim Nanjoo
• Latvian – Ingūna Beķere, Inese Avana
• Lithuanian – Milda Dyke, Irena Jomantienė, Jūratė Nauronaitė, Marius Daškus, Dalia Saukaitytė, Ieva Stasiūnaitė, Ieva Susnytė
• Norwegian – Ika Kaminka, Kari and Kjell Risvik
• Odia – Satya Pattanaik
• Persian – Gita Garakani, Mehdi Ghabraee, Bozorgmehr Sharafoddin
• Polish – Anna Horikoshi, Anna Zielińska-Elliott
• Portuguese – Maria João Lourenço (Portugal); Ana Luiza Dantas Borges, Leiko Gotoda, Lica Hashimoto (Brazilian Portuguese)
• Romanian – Angela Hondru, Silvia Cercheaza, Andreea Sion, Iuliana Tomescu
• Russian – Dmitry V. Kovalenin, Vadim Smolensky, Ivan Logatchev, Sergey Logatchev, Andrey Zamilov, Natalya Kunikova
• Serbian – Nataša Tomić, Divna Tomić
• Slovak – Dana Hashimoto, Lucia Kružlíková
• Slovene – Nika Cejan, Aleksander Mermal
• Spanish – Lourdes Porta, Junichi Matsuura, Fernando Rodríguez-Izquierdo, Francisco Barberán, Albert Nolla, Gabriel Álvarez
• Swedish – Yukiko Duke, Eiko Duke, Vibeke Emond
• Thai – Noppadol Vatsawat, Komsan Nantachit, Tomorn Sukprecha
• Turkish – Pınar Polat, Nihal Önol, Hüseyin Can Erkin, Ali Volkan Erdemir
• Ukrainian – Ivan Dziub, Oleksandr Bibko
• Vietnamese – Trinh Lu, Tran Tien Cao Dang, Duong Tuong, Cao Viet Dung, Pham Xuan Nguyen, Luc Huong, Pham Vu Thinh

Further reading

• Pintor, Ivan. "David Lynch y Haruki Murakami, la llama en el umbral," in: VV.AA., Universo Lynch. Internacional Sitges Film Festival-Calamar, 2007 (ISBN 84-96235-16-5)
• Rubin, Jay. Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words. Harvill Press, 2002 (ISBN 1-86046-952-3)
• Strecher, Matthew Carl. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Readers Guide. Continuum Pub Group, 2002 (ISBN 0-8264-5239-6)
• Strecher, Matthew Carl. Dances with Sheep: The Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki. University of Michigan/Monographs in Japanese Studies, 2001. (ISBN 1-929280-07-6)
• Suter, Rebecca. The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki Between Japan and the United States. Harvard University Asian Center, 2008. (ISBN 978-0-674-02833-3)

External links

• Murakami's Cats
• Haruki Murakami at Random House
• Haruki Murakami at The New Yorker (online essays, stories, excerpts)
• Haruki Murakami at The New York Times (articles about, interviews with)
• Haruki Murakami at Complete Review (international meta-reviews)
• Haruki Murakami at the Internet Book List
• Haruki Murakami at The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
• Haruki Murakami at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Interviews

• "Haruki Murakami: The Outsider" (by Laura Miller and Don George), Salon, December 1997 (about Wind-Up Bird and Underground)
• "Haruki Murakami, The Art of Fiction No. 182" (by John Wray), The Paris Review, Summer 2004

Articles

• "The reception of Murakami Haruki in Taiwan" (PDF), Yale University
• "Haruki Murakami: How a Japanese writer conquered the world" (by Stephanie Hegarty), BBC News, October 17, 2011
• "The 10 Best Haruki Murakami Books" (by Murakami scholar Matthew C. Strecher), Publishers Weekly, August 8, 2014

Fan resources

• Exorcising Ghosts - Haruki Murakami resources (bibliography, adaptations, press review)
• About the music from Haruki Murakami books
• Template:Ja Japanese fan's website

Multimedia

• Video about Murakami's life and work at Psychology Today's blog The Literary Mind