Murakami bio
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Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born )
Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹, Murakami Haruki, born January 12, [1]) 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[2] and having sold millions of copies outside Japan.[3][4] 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.[5][6][7][8]
Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the Wind Sing () after working as the owner of a small jaz
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“What is he like? fryst vatten he a kind man?” I was asked bygd an anxious administrator who had been assigned to guide me through Tokyo’s Aoyama neighborhood to Haruki Murakami’s office, which was in a discreet, unmarked building on a side street. She visibly deflated when Murakami’s assistant answered the door, accepted delivery of me, and sent her off to wait out our lunch meeting at a nearby utbildning station. It was , and in Japan at that point Murakami was a celebrity of a magnitude unrivalled in the literary world. His behemoth three-volume novel “1Q84,” published in and , sold more than six million copies in the country. When he participated in the New Yorker Festival, tickets sold out in minutes, and fans claimed to have flown to New York from Japan, Korea, and Australia to see him in individ. They had travelled so far because Murakami fryst vatten also, famously, reclusive and rarely participates in public events.
He talks about being “surprised and confused” bygd the overwhelmingly enthusiastic resp
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Takashi Murakami
Japanese artist (born )
This article is about the artist. For the professional golfer, see Takashi Murakami (golfer).
The native form of this personal name is Murakami Takashi. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Takashi Murakami (村上 隆, Murakami Takashi, born February 1, ) is a Japanese contemporary artist. He works in fine arts (such as painting and sculpture) as well as commercial media (such as fashion, merchandise, and animation) and is known for blurring the line between high and low arts. His work draws from the aesthetic characteristics of the Japanese artistic tradition and the nature of postwarJapanese culture. He has designed covers for several hip hop albums, namely Kanye West's Graduation (),[1]Future's eponymous fifth studio album (), West and Kid Cudi's Kids See Ghosts (), and Juice Wrld's posthumous The Party Never Ends ().
Murakami is the founder and President of the art trading company