Haruki Murakami, author portrait
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Haruki Murakami

HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and one of the most recent of his many international honors is the Cino Del Duca World Prize, whose previous recipients include Jorge Luis Borges, Ismail Kadare, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Joyce Carol Oates.
End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Novelist as a Vocation
First Person Singular
Murakami T
Killing Commendatore
Men Without Women
Absolutely on Music
Wind/Pinball
Pinball, 1973
Hear the Wind Sing
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
The Strange Library
1Q84
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
After Dark
Vintage Murakami
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Kafka on the Shore
After the Quake
Sputnik Sweetheart
A Wild Sheep Chase
Underground
Norwegian Wood
South of the Border, West of the Sun
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Dance Dance Dance
The Elephant Vanishes
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Books

End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Novelist as a Vocation
First Person Singular
Murakami T
Killing Commendatore
Men Without Women
Absolutely on Music
Wind/Pinball
Pinball, 1973
Hear the Wind Sing
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
The Strange Library
1Q84
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
After Dark
Vintage Murakami
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Kafka on the Shore
After the Quake
Sputnik Sweetheart
A Wild Sheep Chase
Underground
Norwegian Wood
South of the Border, West of the Sun
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Dance Dance Dance
The Elephant Vanishes
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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