“While I was running, some other thoughts on writing novels came to me.”
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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 millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'C…
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culture · Japanese writer (born 1949) · linguist · novelist · writer · translator · essayist · athletics competitor · university teacher · science fiction writer · prose writer · short story writer · also Haruki Murakami, Murakami Haruki, Murakami
Born 12 January 1949 · Q134798
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2026· 17 entries
“I have many similarities to [Tsukuru]. I see myself as a kind of ordinary guy. I don”
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“I just wanted to describe that guy, 36 years old, very solitary … I wanted to describe his life. So his secret was not to be dissolved; the mystery was going to stay a mystery.”
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“You said that the mind is like the wind, but perhaps it is we who are like the wind. Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying”
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“You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less.”
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“I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.”
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“You are not lost. It's just that your own thoughts are being kept from you, or hidden away. But the mind is strong. It survives even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed-your self. You must believe in your powers.”
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“And once the storm is over you won”
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“Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us.”
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Chicago Tribune: City Series: White Sox lose 2nd straight despite Munetaka Murakami’s HR and Erick Fedde’s strong pitching
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Baseball Savant: Jose Trevino grounds out, shortstop Chase Meidroth to first baseman Munetaka Murakami.
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Artsy: And Then X5 Yellow Universe (2013) by Takashi Murakami - For Sale
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Chosunbiz: Murakami Munetaka surpasses Ohtani with 28th homer, sets Japanese rookie record - CHOSUNBIZ
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Reconquista Radios: Haruki Murakami publicó su nueva novela y generó furor de lectores fans en Japón
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MLB.com: Munetaka Murakami on playing first base, his home run
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The Guardian: ‘Murakami saw his book come alive!’: the Japanese company bringing the author’s science fiction masterpiece to the stage
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The Guardian: Haruki Murakami to publish first novel to feature woman as lead character
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2025· 2 entries
The Guardian: This month’s best paperbacks: Haruki Murakami, Richard Powers and more
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The Guardian: Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey review – gorgeous whimsy from Haruki Murakami
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2024· 6 entries
The Guardian: The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami review – a labour of love
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The Guardian: Haruki Murakami: ‘My books have been criticised so much over the years, I don’t pay much attention’
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The Guardian: The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami review – a lack of magic and meaning
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The Guardian: The best new novels for autumn 2024, from Sally Rooney to Jonathan Coe and Haruki Murakami
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The Guardian: This month’s best paperbacks: Haruki Murakami, Sophie Mackintosh and more
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Murakami received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement and was elected as a Royal Society of Literature International Writer
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2023· 4 entries
The Guardian: Sputnik Sweetheart review – Haruki Murakami’s love triangle staged in style
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The Guardian: Where to start with: Haruki Murakami
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Awarded Princess of Asturias Literary Prize (2023).
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Was awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature
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2022· 6 entries
The Guardian: Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami review – lessons in simplicity
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The Guardian: Novelist As a Vocation by Haruki Murakami review – the secrets behind the literary phenomenon
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Awarded Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (2022).
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Director Pierre Földes adapted six short stories from Murakami's books After the Quake, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman and The Elephant Vanishes into an animated feature film
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During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Murakami prepared a special radio program calling for peace which featured around ten musical pieces that encouraged an end to the war and a "focus on the preciousness of life"
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Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey was translated into Yorùbá by Nigerian linguist Kola Tubosun, making it the first time a Murakami story would be translated into an African language
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2019· 1 entry
Published “Pembrolizumab versus chemotherapy for previously untreated, PD-L1-expressing, locally advanced or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (KEYNOTE-042): a randomised, open-label, controlled, phase 3 trial” in The Lancet — cited 2,842 times.
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2018· 4 entries
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2018).
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"Barn Burning" from Murakami's short story collection The Elephant Vanishes was adapted into a film titled Burning by director Lee Chang-dong
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Was nominated for the New Academy Prize in Literature
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Waseda University in Tokyo agreed to house the archives of Haruki Murakami, including his manuscripts, source documents, and music collection
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2017· 1 entry
Published “Durvalumab after Chemoradiotherapy in Stage III Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 3,925 times.
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2016· 2 entries
Awarded Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award (2016).
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Published “Recent developments in Geant4” in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment — cited 3,814 times.
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2015· 2 entries
Awarded Time 100 (2015).
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Switch Publishing published Murakami's essay collection Novelist as a Vocation in Japan, featuring insights and commentaries on Murakami's life and career
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2013· 2 entries
Pianist Eunbi Kim debuted a performance piece, titled "Murakami Music: Stories of Loss and Nostalgia", drawn from excerpts of Murakami's work as part of her artist residency at The Cell Theatre in New York City
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Published “Commensal microbe-derived butyrate induces the differentiation of colonic regulatory T cells” in Nature — cited 5,006 times.
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2012· 3 entries
Awarded Ignotus Award for Best Foreign Novel for 1Q84 (2012).
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Awarded Hideo Kobayashi Sho (2012).
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Published “Efficient Hybrid Solar Cells Based on Meso-Superstructured Organometal Halide Perovskites” in Science — cited 10,178 times.
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2011· 4 entries
Awarded Catalonia International Prize (2011).
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"I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody
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“I think of myself as a political person, but I don”
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Murakami donated his €80,000 winnings from the International Catalunya Prize (from the Generalitat de Catalunya) to the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and to those affected by the Fukushima nuclear disas
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2010· 2 entries
Stephen Earnhart adapted The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle into a two-hour multimedia stage presentation
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Directed by Carlos Cuarón, starring Kirsten Dunst and as part of a segment in the South Korean omnibus film Acoustic
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2009· 4 entries
Awarded Mainichi Publication Culture Award (2009).
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Awarded Jerusalem Prize (2009).
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Awarded Order of Arts and Letters (2009).
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Whilst accepting an award in Israel, he expressed his political views as:
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2008· 2 entries
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
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Tom Flint adapted "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" into a short film
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2007· 3 entries
Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Liège (2007).
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With English translations released in the UK and the US in 2008
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Robert Logevall adapted "All God's Children Can Dance" into a film, with a soundtrack composed by American jam band Sound Tribe Sector 9
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2006· 6 entries
Awarded World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for Kafka on the Shore (2006).
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Awarded Franz Kafka Prize (2006).
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Awarded Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (2006).
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Awarded Asahi Prize (2006).
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Published “Geant4 developments and applications” in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science — cited 5,915 times.
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Murakami became the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize
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2004· 1 entry
Murakami was interviewed by John Wray for the 182nd installment of The Paris Review's "The Art of Fiction" interview series
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2003· 1 entry
Published “Geant4—a simulation toolkit” in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment — cited 21,368 times.
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2002· 1 entry
Murakami published the anthology Birthday Stories, which collects short stories on the theme of birthdays
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2001· 2 entries
Published “The fat-derived hormone adiponectin reverses insulin resistance associated with both lipoatrophy and obesity” in Nature Medicine — cited 3,863 times.
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Published “A role for ghrelin in the central regulation of feeding” in Nature — cited 2,696 times.
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded Takeo Kuwahara Academic Award (1999).
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Followed by Kafka on the Shore in 2002, with the English translation following in 2005
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1998· 2 entries
Published “Osteoclast differentiation factor is a ligand for osteoprotegerin/osteoclastogenesis-inhibitory factor and is identical to TRANCE/RANKL” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — cited 3,406 times.
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The German film The Polar Bear (German: Der Eisbär), written and directed by Granz Henman, used elements of Murakami's short story "The Second Bakery Attack" in three intersecting story lines
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1996· 3 entries
Completed his first ultramarathon, a 100 km race around Lake Saroma in Hokkaido
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In a conversation with the psychologist Hayao Kawai, Murakami explained that he changed his position from one of "detachment" to one of "commitment" after staying in the United States in the 1990s
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Published “Life with 6000 Genes” in Science — cited 3,129 times.
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Yomiuri Prize (1995).
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1987· 1 entry
With the publication of Norwegian Wood, a nostalgic story of loss and sexuality
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1985· 2 entries
Awarded Tanizaki Prize (1985).
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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
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1982· 2 entries
Awarded Noma Literary New Face Prize (1982).
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Published A Wild Sheep Chase, a critical success
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1981· 1 entry
Co-wrote a short story collection, Yume de Aimashou with Shigesato Itoi
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1978· 1 entry
Led to a personal epiphany in which he decided to write his first novel
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1949· 1 entry
Born 1949-01-12.
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