Haruki Murakami
Portrait by Marion Ettlinger
In his own words
- Interview with Laura Miller, Salon, 1 December 1997 view»
- Interview with Sinda Gregory, Toshifumi Miyawaki and Larry McCaffer, Center for Book Culture
- Interview with Roland Kelts, Metropolis Magazine view»
- Interview with Matt Thompson, Guardian, 26 May 2001 view»
- Interview with Velisarios Kattoulas, Time Asia, 25 November 2002 view»
- Interview with Roland Kelts, The Japan Times, 1 December 2002 view»
- Interview with Richard Williams, Guardian, 17 May 2003 view»
- Conversation with Philip Gabriel, translator of Kafka On The Shore, Random House view»
- Interview from the magazine A Public Space view»
Author Biography
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949. Following the publication of his first novel in Japanese in 1979, he sold the jazz bar he ran with his wife and became a full-time writer. It was with the publication of Norwegian Wood – which has to date sold more than 4 million copies in Japan alone – that the author was truly catapulted into the limelight. Known for his surrealistic world of mysterious (and often disappearing) women, cats, earlobes, wells, Western culture, music and quirky first-person narratives, he is now Japan’s best-known novelist abroad. Nine novels, four short story collections and two works of non-fiction are currently available in English translation.