About Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami, born on January 12, 1949, is a Japanese writer whose fiction and nonfiction alike have reached best-seller lists both at home and abroad. His books have appeared in 50 languages, and millions of copies have sold outside Japan.
His body of work includes titles such as Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, 1Q84, Killing Commendatore, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.
Murakami has collected more than twenty honors over his career. These include the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the Tanizaki Prize, the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the World Fantasy Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Literary Prize.
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Awards & Honors
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Franz Kafka Prize
Catalonia International Prize
Jerusalem Prize
Time 100
Asahi Prize
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
Yomiuri Prize
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Order of Arts and Letters
Mainichi Publication Culture Award
Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award
Tanizaki Prize
Prix mondial Cino Del Duca
Princess of Asturias Literary Prize
Hideo Kobayashi Sho
Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
Ignotus Award for Best Foreign Novel
Takeo Kuwahara Academic Award
Noma Literary New Face Prize
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
Honorary doctor of the University of Liège
