Author

Books by Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami is one of Japan's most celebrated and internationally read novelists, known for The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore, and 1Q84, among many others. He was born in Kyoto in 1949, studied drama at Waseda University, and ran a jazz bar in Tokyo before his first novel was published in 1979. He has been a dedicated distance runner since 1982, completing more than thirty marathons and multiple Ironman triathlons. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, published in Japan in 2007 and translated into English by Philip Gabriel, is his only memoir. He has received the Franz Kafka Prize, the Jerusalem Prize, and multiple Yomiuri Literary…