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Haruki Murakami

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 the most recent of his many international honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V. S. Naipaul. His new collection, Novelist as Vocation is available now from Knopf.


Haruki Murakami on the Year Dave Hilton Debuted for the Yakult Swallows

“It felt as if the spring sunlight shone more intensely around him,
and him alone.”
April 5, 2021  By Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami on His Favorite Young Novelist: Mieko Kawakami

Introducing the Freeman's Channel at Literary Hub
October 4, 2017  By Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami: The Moment I Became a Novelist

At a Baseball Game in 1978, The Writer Who Almost Wasn't
June 25, 2015  By Haruki Murakami
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