Haruki Murakami

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... Wikipedia

• Born:  January 12, 1949, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan
• Age:  77 years
• Occupation:  Novelist, short-story writer, essayist, translator
• Language:  Japanese
• Education:  Waseda University (BA)
• Period:  Contemporary
• Genres:  Fiction, Bildungsroman, picaresque
• Literary movement:  Surrealism, magical realism, postmodernism, realism
• Notable works:  Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95), Kafka on the Shore (2002), 1Q84 (2010), Men without Women (2014)
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo