Sonno murakami haruki biography

Career
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Selected Writings
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Author

B orn January 12, 1949, in Kyoto, Japan; son of teachers; married Yoko Takahashi, 1971.

Education: Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 1975.

Addresses:Contact—c/o Knopf Publishing Group, Random House, 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019. Home—Tokyo, Japan.

Career

O wner/operator, Peter Cat jazz club, Tokyo, 1974-82; published first book, Kaze no uta o kike (Hear the Wind Sing), 1979; visiting scholar, Princeton University, 1991-93; writer-in-residence, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 1993-95.

Awards: New Writer’s Award, Gunzo journal, for Kaze no uta o kike (Hear the Wind Song), 1979; Noma Literary Newcomer’s Prize, for A Wild Sheep Chase, 1982; Tanizaki Literary Prize, for HardBoiled Won-derland and the End of the World, 1985; Yomiuri Literary Prize, for The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1995; Ku-wabara Takeo Academic Award, for Underground, 1999; Franz Kafka Prize, 2006; World Fantasy Awar