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Haruki Murakami

1949 - Today

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Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹, Murakami Haruki; born January 12, 1949) 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'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards. Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the Wind Sing (1979) after owning a small jazz bar for seven years. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Haruki Murakami is the 134th most popular writer (down from 110th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Japan (down from 10th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Writer.

Haruki Murakami is a Japanese author and translator who is most famous for his surrealist novels.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Haruki Murakami ranks 134 out of 7,302. Before him are Apuleius, Sully Prudhomme, Jean de La Fontaine, Ezra Pound, François Villon, and Günter Grass. After him are Jean Cocteau, August Strindberg, Charles Bukowski, Jonathan Swift, Paul Verlaine, and Lewis Carroll.

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Among people born in 1949, Haruki Murakami ranks 7. Before him are Ivana Trump, Pablo Escobar, Benjamin Netanyahu, Caitlyn Jenner, Niki Lauda, and Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. After him are Roger Taylor, Nawaz Sharif, António Guterres, Meryl Streep, Anna Wintour, and Pedro Almodóvar.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Haruki Murakami ranks 13 out of 6,245. Before him are Akira Kurosawa (1910), Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542), Emperor Meiji (1852), Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Naruhito (1960), and Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536). After him are Yukio Mishima (1925), Yasunari Kawabata (1899), Hideki Tojo (1884), Emperor Taishō (1879), Murasaki Shikibu (973), and Shinzō Abe (1954).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Haruki Murakami ranks 3. Before him are Matsuo Bashō (1644), and Miyamoto Musashi (1584). After him are Yukio Mishima (1925), Yasunari Kawabata (1899), Murasaki Shikibu (973), Osamu Dazai (1909), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), Natsume Sōseki (1867), Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), and Sei Shōnagon (966).

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