Murakami Haruki (Japanese: 村上 春樹) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. His work has been described as 'easily accessible, yet profoundly complex'. He can be located on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/harukimuraka... Since childhood, Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western music and literature. He grew up reading a range of works by American writers, such as Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and he is often distinguished from other Japanese writers by his Western influences. Murakami studied drama at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he met his wife, Yoko. His first job was at a record store, which is where one of his main characters, Toru Watanabe in Norwegian Wood, works. Shortly before finishing his studies, Murakami opened the coffeehouse 'Peter Cat' which was a jazz bar in the evening in Kokubunji, Tokyo with his wife. 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' song, although it is widely thought it was titled after the Beach Boys tune), Norwegian Wood (after The Beatles' song) and South of the Border, West of the Sun (the first part being the title of a song by Nat King Cole).
Series
Books
Cream
2019
Murakami T
The T-Shirts I Love
2020
Desire
Vintage Minis
2017
Novelist as a Vocation
2015
ノルウェイの森 Vol. 1
1987
Dance Dance Dance
1988
Selected Shorts
A Touch of Magic
2009
After the Quake
2000
The Girl from Ipanema 1963/1982
2023
Portrait in Jazz 2
2001
حدائق موراكامي
2017
thailand
2001
Landscape with Flatiron
1999
The Windup Bird and Tuesday's Women
1985
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Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Fowler Edition Man [Japanese Edition]
1995
Men Without Women
2014
The Mirror
2025
Barn Burning
1983
Killing Commendatore
Volume 2
2017
The Folklore of Our Times
2003
Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 2
The Second Bakery Attack, Samsa in Love, Thailand
2024
A Wild Sheep Chase
1982
Super-Frog Saves Tokyo
2000
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
2023
Kafka on the Shore
2002
Absolutely on Music
Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
2011
The Elephant Vanishes
1993
Underground
The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
1997
Nich'ya na karuseli
1985
Pinball, 1973
1980
Lederhosen
1992
The Seventh Man
1989
The Running Novelist
2008
Трилогия Крысы
2012
حياة الكتابة
مقالات مترجمة عن الكتابة
2018
Galette au miel
2024
В год спагетти
2025
Prizraki Leksingtona
1996
Sputnik Sweetheart
1999
Hunting Knife
2003
海辺のカフカ（上）
2002
Samsa in Love
2013
The Second Bakery Attack
1986
The Lion Who Loved Salad
2012
Portrait in Jazz
1997
Kangoeroecorrespondentie
1986
Monkey Brain Sushi
New Tastes in Japanese Fiction
1991
Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1
Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, Where I'm Likely to Find It, Birthday Girl, The Seventh Man
2023
Diary of the Wind-Up Bird
Part Two
1994
کینو
2016
The Sheep Man's Christmas
1985
TV People
1990
Tokyo Strange Tales
2005
Drive My Car
2013
Killing Commendatore
2017
South of the Border, West of the Sun
1992
Killing Commendatore
Volume 1
2017
First Person Singular
Stories
2020
Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 3
Scheherezade, Sleep
2025
Wind/Pinball
Two Novels
1980
A Wild Sheep Chase / Dance Dance Dance
2006
Liefdesdood in Kamara en andere Japanse verhalen
2014
A Shinagawa Monkey
1995
Haruki Murakami's Essays
2011
Norwegian Wood
1987
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
2007
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
2006
Rain, Burning Sun
1990
Hear the Wind Sing
1979
1Q84 #1
2009
With The Beatles
2020
中国行きのスロウ・ボート
1983
1Q84
Volume 3
2010
Yesterday
2014
Independent Organ
2014
Without Meaning, There's No Need for Confession
2005
Vintage Murakami
2004
Where Might I Find Her
2005
1Q84
Volume 2
2009
Honey Pie
2001
The Strange Library
2005
Sleepiness
1987
Diary of a Spring Bird
1994
Birthday Girl
2002
1Q84
Volume 1
2009
1Q84
Book 1 & 2
2009
1Q84
2009
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
2013
ノルウェイの森 Vol. 2
1987
The Bird Catcher
1995
Tony Takitani
1996
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy
2020
On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl on One Beautiful April Morning
1981
Een kat achterlaten
Herinneringen aan mijn vader
2019
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
1994
After Dark
2004
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
1985
