Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami was born on 12 January 1949 in Kyoto and grew up in the Kobe region, the son of two teachers of Japanese literature. A student at Waseda University, from 1974 he ran a jazz club in Tokyo with his wife. He began to write in 1978; the idea came to him during a baseball game. A dedicated runner, he runs at least one marathon a year, has been a writer in residence at American universities, and has translated Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver and Raymond Chandler into Japanese.

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• NovelNorwegian Woodノルウェイの森Haruki Murakami · 1987Literature