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- A Wild Sheep Chase
- Norwegian Wood, 1987
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, 1991
- The Elephant Vanishes, 1993
- Dance Dance Dance, 1994
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1998
- South of the Border, West of the Sun, 1999
- Underground, 2000
- Sputnik Sweetheart, 2001
- After the Quake, 2002
- Kafka on the Shore, 2005
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Haruki Murakami (1949 - )
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Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into thirty-four languages, and the most recent of his many honors is the Yomiuri Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, and Kobo Abe.
urakami graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo, and owned a small jazz bar in Tokyo for seven years. His first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, was published in 1979. In 1991, Murakami spent four years in the United States teaching at Princeton. Murakami returned to Japan in 1995.
Murakami has translated many American authors into Japanese, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, and John Irving.
username September 5th, 2008 04:41 AM PST