A writer is a person who produces literary content, including but not limited to stories, poetry, music and other literary art, advertising, procedures, and books.

Profession

The word is almost synonymous with ''author''. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images, whether fiction, non-fiction or creative nonfiction. A writer may compose in many different forms including poetry, prose, or music. Accordingly, a writer may rank as a poet, novelist, copywriter, composer, lyricist, playwright, mythographer, journalist, screenwriter for film or television, etc. (See also: creative writing, technical writing and academic papers.)

Writers' output frequently contributes to the cultural content of a society, and that society may value its writerly corpus – or literature – as an art much like the visual arts (see: painting, sculpture, photography), music, craft and performance art (see: drama, theatre, opera, musical).

See also

Author

Copywriting

Essayist

Ghostwriter

Hack writer

List of women writers

List of writers' conferences

Lists of writers

Physician writer

Professional writing

Style guide

Technical writer

Website content writer

Wordsmith

Writer's voice

Writing

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name	Ellie Goulding
background	solo_singer
birth name	Elena Jane Goulding
birth date	December 30, 1986
birth place	Hereford, Herefordshire, England
origin	London, England
genre	Indie pop, electropop, synthpop, folktronica
occupation	Singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist, drummer
instrument	Vocals, guitar, drums, piano, clarinet, tambourine
years active	2007–present
label	Neon Gold, Polydor, Cherrytree, Interscope
associated acts	Starsmith, Diana Vickers, Gabriella Cilmi, Tinie Tempah, Erik Hassle, Lissie, Frankmusik, Lena Meyer-Landrut,Mumford & Sons
website	}}

Elena Jane "Ellie" Goulding (born December 30, 1986) is an English singer-songwriter. In 2010 she became only the second artist to both top the BBC's annual ''Sound of...'' poll, and win the Critics' Choice Award at the BRIT Awards in the same year, following Adele's win of both in 2008. After signing to Polydor Records in 2009, she released her first extended-play recording in 2009, ''An Introduction to Ellie Goulding'', and her debut studio album ''Lights'' followed in 2010. Her album went on to debut at number one on the UK Albums Chart and sold there over 380,000 copies by the end of 2010 and over 620,000 copies in total.

Her musical style has been compared to that of Kate Nash, Lykke Li, Tracey Thorn, and Björk.

Background

Ellie was born and brought up in Hereford, Herefordshire, the second of four children. She began playing the clarinet and writing songs at the age of nine, and at fourteen began learning guitar. She started songwriting at the age of fifteen and while in college she won a singing competition.

After commencing a drama course at the University of Kent, where she was exposed to electronic music, she developed her sound with the help of Frankmusik on the track "Wish I Stayed", and Starsmith, who went on to become her chief collaborator and primary producer of ''Lights''. After two years at Kent, she was advised to take a gap year to pursue singing, and moved to West London.

She is a keen runner, running six miles every day, and in 2010 admitted plans to run a marathon. In support of her second EP, ''Run Into the Light'', she invited a small number of fans through her Facebook pages, to run with her in seven different cities on her UK tour, and has announced that she will be doing the same across Europe and the United States. A website, EllieRuns.com, was launched in support. Goulding's keenness for exercise has given her what is considered to be an impressively athletic physique.

She is currently dating BBC Radio 1's DJ Greg James.

Music career

Early career

Signed to Polydor Records in September 2009, she made her debut single. "Under the Sheets", which was released digitally in the United Kingdom on 15 November 2009, peaking outside the top 40. In October 2009 she toured the UK supporting Little Boots, and appeared on ''Later... with Jools Holland'', performing "Under The Sheets" and "Guns and Horses". "Wish I Stayed" was available as a free download as the UK iTunes Store's 'Single of the Week' from 22–28 December 2009.

''Lights'' and ''Bright Lights''

Before the release of her debut studio album, Goulding won the BBC Sound of 2010 poll, which showcases the critics, broadcasters and music industry insiders' top choices for rising stars and artists for the coming year. She also won the Critics' Choice Award at the 2010 BRIT Awards, which prize made her the second artist to win both in the same year.

The album ''Lights'' was released in March 2010, reaching number one on the UK Albums Chart and number twelve on the Irish Albums Chart. Its singles, "Starry Eyed", "Guns and Horses", and "The Writer" peaked at numbers 4, 26, and 19 respectively. In August 2010, Ellie released a second extended play, ''Run Into the Light'', a remixed version of ''Lights''. The album was supported by Nike and was released through Polydor as a running soundtrack in an effort to get Goulding's music taken up by the national running subculture.

In November 2010, ''Lights'' was re-released as ''Bright Lights'', with six new tracks added. It was originally announced that the lead single from ''Bright Lights'' would be the new edit of the title track with a release scheduled for 1 November 2010. Yet this was scrapped to allow her cover of Elton John's "Your Song" to be released in conjunction with the John Lewis Christmas 2010 advertising campaign in the UK. The single became Goulding's highest-charting single to date, reaching number two on the UK Singles Chart. The song also charted in some European countries in early 2011.

Goulding toured in support of ''Lights'' and supported Passion Pit in March 2010 and John Mayer during his British tour in May 2010. During the summer she performed at a number of festivals. On 29 May she performed at the Dot to Dot Festival in Bristol. She performed a set on 25 June at the 40th annual Glastonbury Festival on the John Peel Stage. Her third EP was a live recording of part of her set at the iTunes Festival 2010. The whole set was later released as part of the iTunes version of ''Bright Lights''. She made her T in the Park debut on 11 July. She played on the Nissan Juke Arena at the 2010 V Festival in late August. In September she was part of the line-up at Bestival 2010 on the Isle of Wight. In support of the album in Europe she performed on the first day of Pukkelpop in Belgium, at the Open'er Festival in Poland and at Benicàssim in Spain. A track from ''Lights'', "Everytime You Go", was featured in the ''Vampire Diaries'' episode "Founder's Day", while "Your Biggest Mistake" appeared in an episode of ''The Inbetweeners''. She began a tour of the United States and Canada in February 2011 to coincide with the release of the American edition of ''Lights''. She will also play at Coachella.

In January 2011 it was announced that the title track from ''Lights'' would serve as the second single from ''Bright Lights''. In early 2011 she recorded an original song for the film ''Life in a Day''. Goulding was featured as number five artist on Rolling Stone Magazine's hotlist in February 2011. In February 2011 she returned to the BRIT Awards where she was nominated for the Best British Female Solo Artist and the Best British Breakthrough Act. Previously she had performed at the BRITs launch party where the nominations were announced. Goulding will headline the 2011 Wakestock Festival in Wales, performing on 8 July. In August she will again perform at the V Festival. Following the re-release of ''Lights'' and the American launch of the album, Goulding said she would soon begin work on a second studio album with an expected release in September 2011. Goulding made her American television debut on ''Jimmy Kimmel Live'' on 7 April 2011 performing "Starry Eyed". She appeared as the musical guest on the 700th episode of the ''Saturday Night Live'', broadcast 7 May 2011 and hosted by Tina Fey. She served as the only live performer at the wedding reception of Prince William and Kate Middleton on 29 April 2011 singing her rendition of Your Song for the couple's first dance as well as her hits The Writer and Starry Eyed and several of William and Kate's personal favourites. She was introduced to Prince William by Tinie Tempah at a music festival during the summer of 2010. Ellie performed, for the second consecutive year, at Radio 1's Big Weekend on Saturday 14 May. On 28 July 2011, the American video version of Starry Eyed was released on Youtube. The video reached over 1 million views in just 3 days. The video features Ellie wearing blue contacts

Untitled second album

In March 2011, Goulding told UK showbiz website Digital Spy that she is recording a currently untitled follow-up to ''Lights''. When asked about the musical direction of the record, Ellie told the site:

The previous month, the site reported that she hopes to release the album at some point in 2011, saying, "I'm not going to go away for ages. It'll be out this year or the start of next."

Work with other artists

Goulding co-wrote "Love Me 'Cause You Want To" for Gabriella Cilmi's second album, ''Ten'', and three songs, "Remake Me + You", "Notice" and "Jumping Into Rivers," for Diana Vickers's debut album, ''Songs from the Tainted Cherry Tree''. Her song "Not Following" was used by Lena Meyer-Landrut on her debut album ''My Cassette Player''. Goulding featured on the rapper Tinie Tempah's fifth official single "Wonderman" from his debut studio album Disc-Overy. Goulding is also featured on American rap duo Chiddy Bang's song "Under the Sheets" on their mixtape ''Airswell''. Frankmusik told Digital Spy he hoped to collaborate with Goulding on his upcoming album. The two previously worked together on Ellie's track ''Wish I Stayed''.

Discography

;Studio albums

2010: ''Lights'' / ''Bright Lights''

2011: TBA

;Extended plays

2009: ''An Introduction to Ellie Goulding''

2010: ''iTunes Festival: London 2010''

2010: ''Run Into the Light''

Awards and nominations

Year	Organization	Nominated Work	Award	Result
			Sound of 2010
2010 BRIT Awards	Critics' Choice
rowspan="2"	Best Female Artist
Best Breakthrough Artist
	Best UK & Ireland Act
2010 MP3 Music Awards	The BNC Award
	Best Female Artist
	Best Breakthrough Artist
rowspan="2"	Best Newcomer
Lights	Best Album
			British Female Solo Artist
British Breakthrough Act
rowspan="2"		Pandora Newcomer of the Year 2011

References

External links

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name	Haruki Murakami
birth date	January 12, 1949
birth place	Kyoto, Japan
occupation	Author, novelist
nationality	Japanese
genre	Fiction, surrealist, magical realism
website	http://www.harukimurakami.com/
signature	Haruki Murakami signture.svg
influences	Raymond Chandler, Franz Kafka, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, John Irving, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, J.D. Salinger }}

is a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim and numerous awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize and Jerusalem Prize among others.

He is considered an important figure in postmodern literature. ''The Guardian'' praised him as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his works and achievements.

Biography

Murakami was born in Japan during the post–World War II baby boom. Although born in Kyoto, he spent his youth in Shukugawa (Nishinomiya), Ashiya and Kobe. His father was the son of a Buddhist priest, and his mother the daughter of an Osaka merchant. Both taught Japanese literature.

Since childhood, Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western music and literature. He grew up reading a range of works by American writers, such as Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and he is often distinguished from other Japanese writers by his Western influences.

Murakami studied drama at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he met his wife, Yoko. His first job was at a record store, which is where one of his main characters, Toru Watanabe in ''Norwegian Wood'', works. Shortly before finishing his studies, Murakami opened the coffeehouse (jazz bar, in the evening) "Peter Cat" in Kokubunji, Tokyo with his wife. They ran the bar from 1974 until 1981.

Many of his novels have themes and titles that invoke classical music, such as the three books making up ''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'': ''The Thieving Magpie'' (after Rossini's opera overture), ''Bird as Prophet'' (after a piano piece by Robert Schumann usually known in English as ''The Prophet Bird''), and ''The Bird-Catcher'' (a character in Mozart's opera ''The Magic Flute''). Some of his novels take their titles from songs: ''Dance, Dance, Dance'' (after The Dells' song, although it is widely thought it was titled after the Beach Boys tune), ''Norwegian Wood'' (after The Beatles' song) and ''South of the Border, West of the Sun'' (the first part being the title of a song by Nat King Cole).

Murakami is a keen marathon runner and triathlete, although he did not start running until he was 33 years old. On June 23, 1996, he completed his first ultramarathon, a 100-kilometer race around Lake Saroma in Hokkaido, Japan. He discusses his relationship with running in his 2008 work ''What I Talk About When I Talk About Running''.

''Trilogy of the Rat''

Murakami wrote his first fiction when he was 29. He said he was inspired to write his first novel, 1979's ''Hear the Wind Sing'', while watching a baseball game. In 1978, Murakami was in Jingu Stadium watching a game between the Yakult Swallows and the Hiroshima Carp when Dave Hilton, an American, came to bat. According to an oft-repeated story, in the instant that Hilton hit a double, Murakami suddenly realized he could write a novel. He went home and began writing that night. Murakami worked on it for several months in very brief stretches after working days at the bar. He completed a novel and sent it to the only literary contest that would accept a work of that length, and won first prize.

Murakami's initial success with ''Hear the Wind Sing'' encouraged him to continue writing. A year later, he published ''Pinball, 1973'', a sequel. In 1982, he published ''A Wild Sheep Chase'', a critical success. ''Hear the Wind Sing'', ''Pinball, 1973'', and ''A Wild Sheep Chase'' form the ''Trilogy of the Rat'' (a sequel, ''Dance, Dance, Dance'', was written later but is not considered part of the series), centered on the same unnamed narrator and his friend, "the Rat". The first two novels are unpublished in English translation outside of Japan, where an English edition with extensive translation notes was published as part of a series intended for English students. Murakami considers his first two novels to be "weak," and was not eager to have them translated into English. ''A Wild Sheep Chase'' was "The first book where I could feel a kind of sensation, the joy of telling a story. When you read a good story, you just keep reading. When I write a good story, I just keep writing."

Wider recognition

In 1985, Murakami wrote ''Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'', a dream-like fantasy that takes the magical elements in his work to a new extreme. Murakami achieved a major breakthrough and national recognition in 1987 with the publication of ''Norwegian Wood'', a nostalgic story of loss and sexuality. It sold millions of copies among Japanese youths, making Murakami a literary superstar in his native country. The book was printed in two separate volumes, sold together, so that the number of books sold actually doubled, creating the million-copy bestseller hype. One book had a green cover, the other one red. During this time he wrote ''South of the Border, West of the Sun'' and ''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle''.

An established novelist

In 1994-1995, he published ''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'', a novel that fuses realistic and fantastic tendencies, and contains elements of physical violence. It is also more socially conscious than his previous work, dealing in part with the difficult topic of war crimes in Manchuria (Manchukuo). The novel won the Yomiuri Prize, awarded by one of his harshest former critics, Kenzaburo Oe, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994.

The processing of collective trauma soon became an important theme in Murakami's writing, which had until then been more personal in nature. While he was finishing ''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'', Japan was shaken by the Kobe earthquake and the Aum Shinrikyo gas attack, in the aftermath of which he returned to Japan. He came to terms with these events with his first work of non-fiction, ''Underground'', and the short story collection ''after the quake''. ''Underground'' consists largely of interviews of victims of the gas attacks in the Tokyo subway system. English translations of many of his short stories written between 1983 and 1990 have been collected in ''The Elephant Vanishes''. Murakami has also translated many of the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, Truman Capote, John Irving, and Paul Theroux, among others, into Japanese.

Since 2000

''Sputnik Sweetheart'' was first published in 1999. ''Kafka on the Shore'' was published in 2002, with the English translation following in 2005. It won the World Fantasy Award for Novels in 2006. The English version of his novel ''After Dark'' was released in May 2007. It was chosen by the ''New York Times'' as a "notable book of the year". In late 2005, Murakami published a collection of short stories titled ''Tōkyō Kitanshū'', or 東京奇譚集, which translates loosely as "Mysteries of Tokyo". A collection of the English versions of twenty-four short stories, titled ''Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman'', was published in August 2006. This collection includes both older works from the 1980s as well as some of Murakami's most recent short stories, including all five that appear in ''Tōkyō Kitanshū''.

Murakami published the anthology ''Birthday Stories'', which collects short stories on the theme of birthdays. The collection includes work by Russell Banks, Ethan Canin, Raymond Carver, David Foster Wallace, Denis Johnson, Claire Keegan, Andrea Lee, Daniel Lyons, Lynda Sexson, Paul Theroux, and William Trevor, as well as a story by Murakami himself. ''What I Talk About When I Talk About Running'', containing tales about his experience as a marathon runner and a triathlete, has been published in Japan, with English translations released in the U.K. and the U.S. The title is a play on that of Raymond Carver's collection of short stories, ''What We Talk About When We Talk About Love''.

Shinchosha Publishing published Murakami's novel, ''1Q84'', in Japan on May 29, 2009. ''1Q84'' is pronounced as 'ichi kyū hachi yon', the same as ''1984'', as ''9'' is also pronounced as 'kyū' in Japanese.

Recognition

In 2006, Murakami became the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize from the Czech Republic for his novel ''Umibe no Kafuka'' (''Kafka on the Shore'').

In September 2007, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Liège, as well as one from Princeton University in June 2008.

In January 2009 Murakami received the Jerusalem Prize, a biennial literary award given to writers whose work has dealt with themes of human freedom, society, politics, and government. There were protests in Japan and elsewhere against his attending the February award ceremony in Israel (including threats to boycott his work) as a response against Israel's recent bombing of Gaza. Murakami chose to attend the ceremony, but gave a speech to the gathered Israeli dignitaries harshly criticizing Israeli policies. Murakami said, "Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us."

Criticism and influence

Murakami's fiction, often criticized by Japan's literary establishment, is humorous and surreal, and at the same time digresses on themes of alienation and loneliness. Through his work, he is able to capture the spiritual emptiness of his generation and explore the negative effects of Japan's work-dominated mentality. His writing criticizes the decline in human values and a loss of connection among people in Japan's society.

Murakami was awarded the 2007 Kiriyama Prize for Fiction for his collection of short stories ''Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman'', but according to the Kiriyama Official Website, Murakami "declined to accept the award for reasons of personal principle".

Films and other adaptations

Murakami's first novel ''Hear the Wind Sing'' (''Kaze no uta o kike'') was adapted by Japanese director Kazuki Ōmori. The film was released in 1981 and distributed by Art Theatre Guild. Naoto Yamakawa directed two short films ''Attack on the Bakery'' (released in 1982) and ''A Girl, She is 100 Percent'' (released in 1983), based on Murakami's short stories ''The Second Bakery Attack'' and ''On Seeing the 100% Perfect Woman One Beautiful April Morning'' respectively. Japanese director Jun Ichikawa adapted Murakami's short story ''Tony Takitani'' into a 75-minute feature. The film played at various film festivals and was released in New York and Los Angeles on July 29, 2005. The original short story (as translated by Jay Rubin) is available in the April 15, 2002 issue of ''The New Yorker'', as a stand-alone book published by Cloverfield Press, and part of ''Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman'' by Knopf. In 1998 the German film ''Der Eisbaer'' (Polar Bear), written and directed by Granz Henman, used elements of Murakami's short story ''The Second Bakery Attack'' in three intersecting story lines.

Murakami's work was also adapted for the stage in a 2003 play entitled ''The Elephant Vanishes'', co-produced by Britain's Complicite company and Japan's Setagaya Public Theatre. The production, directed by Simon McBurney, adapted three of Murakami's short stories and received acclaim for unique blending of multimedia (video, music, and innovative sound design) with actor-driven physical theater (mime, dance, and even acrobatic wire work). On tour, the play was performed in Japanese, with supertitles translation for European and American audience.

Two stories from Murakami's book ''after the quake''—''Honey Pie'' and ''Superfrog Saves Tokyo''— have been adapted for the stage and directed by Frank Galati. Entitled ''after the quake'', the play was first performed at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in association with La Jolla Playhouse, and opened on October 12, 2007 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. In 2008, Galati adapted and directed a theatrical version of ''Kafka on the Shore'' also first running at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater from September to November.

On Max Richter's 2006 album ''Songs from Before'', Robert Wyatt reads passages from Murakami's novels. In 2007, Robert Logevall adapted ''All God's Children Can Dance'' into a film, with a soundtrack composed by American jam band Sound Tribe Sector 9. In 2008, Tom Flint adapted ''On Seeing the 100% Perfect Woman One Beautiful April Morning'' into a short film. The film was screened at the 2008 CON-CAN Movie Festival. The film was viewed, voted, and commented upon as part of the audience award for the movie festival.

It was announced in July 2008 that French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung would direct an adaptation of Murakami's novel, ''Norwegian Wood''. The film was released in Japan on 11 December 2010.

In 2010, Stephen Earnhart adapted The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle into a 2 hour multimedia stage presentation. The show opened January 12, 2010 as part of the Public Theater's "Under the Radar" festival at the Ohio Theater, presented in association with The Asia Society and the Baryshnikov Arts Center. The show had its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival on August 21, 2011. The presentation incorporates live actors, video projection, traditional Japanese puppetry, and immersive soundscapes to render the surreal landscape of the original work.

Each short story in Murakami's ''after the quake'' collection was adapted into a six-song EP entitled ''.DC: JPN (after the quake 2011)'' in March 2011 following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami to help benefit the relief efforts by musician Dre Carlan.

Bibliography

Novels

! Original Title	! Original Publication Date	! English Title	! English Publication Date
風の歌を聴け''Kaze no uta o kike''	1979	''Hear the Wind Sing''	1987
1973年のピンボール''1973-nen no pinbōru''	1980	''Pinball, 1973''	1985
羊をめぐる冒険''Hitsuji o meguru bōken''	1982	''A Wild Sheep Chase''	1989
世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド''Sekai no owari to hādoboirudo wandārando''	1985	''Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World''	1991
ノルウェイの森''Noruwei no mori''	1987		2000
ダンス・ダンス・ダンス''Dansu dansu dansu''	1988	''Dance Dance Dance''	1994
国境の南、太陽の西''Kokkyō no minami, taiyō no nishi''	1992	''South of the Border, West of the Sun''	2000
ねじまき鳥クロニクル''Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru''	1995	''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle''	1997
スプートニクの恋人''Supūtoniku no koibito''	1999	''Sputnik Sweetheart''	2001
海辺のカフカ''Umibe no Kafuka''	2002	''Kafka on the Shore''	2005
アフターダーク''Afutā Dāku''	2004		2007
1Q84''Ichi-kyū-hachi-yon''	2009	''1Q84''	2011

Short stories

! Year	! Japanese Title	! English Title	! Appears in
	中国行きのスロウ・ボート"Chūgoku-yuki no surou bōto"	''A Slow Boat to China''	''The Elephant Vanishes''
貧乏な叔母さんの話''Binbō na obasan no hanashi''	''A 'Poor Aunt' Story'' (The New Yorker, December 3, 2001)
	ニューヨーク炭鉱の悲劇''Nyū Yōku tankō no higeki''	''New York Mining Disaster'' (The New Yorker, January 11, 1999)
スパゲティーの年に''Supagetī no toshi ni''	''The Year of Spaghetti'' (The New Yorker, November 21, 2005)
四月のある晴れた朝に100パーセントの女の子に出会うことについて''Shigatsu no aru hareta asa ni 100-paasento no onna no ko ni deau koto ni tsuite''	''On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning''	''The Elephant Vanishes''
かいつぶり''Kaitsuburi''	''Dabchick''
カンガルー日和''Kangarū-biyori''	''A Perfect Day for Kangaroos''
カンガルー通信''Kangarū tsūshin''	''The Kangaroo Communique''
1982	午後の最後の芝生''Gogo no saigo no shibafu''	''The Last Lawn of the Afternoon''
	鏡''Kagami''	''The Mirror''
とんがり焼の盛衰''Tongari-yaki no seisui''	''The Rise and Fall of Sharpie Cakes''
螢''Hotaru''	''Firefly''
納屋を焼く''Naya wo yaku''	''Barn Burning'' (The New Yorker, November 2, 1992)	''The Elephant Vanishes''
	野球場''Yakyūjō''	''Crabs''
嘔吐1979''Ōto 1979''	''Nausea 1979''
ハンティング・ナイフ''Hantingu naifu''	''Hunting Knife'' (The New Yorker, November 17, 2003)
踊る小人''Odoru kobito''	''The Dancing Dwarf''
	レーダーホーゼン''Rēdāhōzen''	''Lederhosen''
パン屋再襲撃''Panya saishūgeki''	''The Second Bakery Attack''
象の消滅''Zō no shōmetsu''	''The Elephant Vanishes'' (The New Yorker, November 18, 1991)
ファミリー・アフェア''Famirī afea''	''A Family Affair''
	ローマ帝国の崩壊・一八八一年のインディアン蜂起・ヒットラーのポーランド侵入・そして強風世界''Rōma-teikoku no hōkai・1881-nen no Indian hōki・Hittorā no Pōrando shinnyū・soshite kyōfū sekai''	''The Fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, and the Realm of Raging Winds''
ねじまき鳥と火曜日の女たち''Nejimaki-dori to kayōbi no onnatachi''	''The Wind-up Bird And Tuesday's Women'' (The New Yorker, November 26, 1990)
	眠り''Nemuri''	''Sleep'' (The New Yorker, March 30, 1992)
TVピープルの逆襲''TV pīpuru no gyakushū''	''TV People'' (The New Yorker, September 10, 1990)
飛行機―あるいは彼はいかにして詩を読むようにひとりごとを言ったか''Hikōki-arui wa kare wa ika ni shite shi wo yomu yō ni hitorigoto wo itta ka''	''Aeroplane: Or, How He Talked to Himself as if Reciting Poetry'' (The New Yorker, July 1, 2002)
我らの時代のフォークロア―高度資本主義前史''Warera no jidai no fōkuroa-kōdo shihonshugi zenshi''	''A Folklore for My Generation: A Prehistory of Late-Stage Capitalism''
1990	トニー滝谷''Tonī Takitani''	''Tony Takitani'' (The New Yorker, April 15, 2002)
	沈黙''Chinmoku''	''The Silence''
緑色の獣''Midori-iro no kemono''	''The Little Green Monster''
氷男''Kōri otoko''	''The Ice Man''
人喰い猫''Hito-kui neko''	''Man-Eating Cats'' (The New Yorker, December 4, 2000)
1995	めくらやなぎと、眠る女''Mekurayanagi to, nemuru onna''	''Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman''
1996	七番目の男''Nanabanme no otoko''	''The Seventh Man''
	UFOが釧路に降りる''UFO ga Kushiro ni oriru''	''UFO in Kushiro'' (The New Yorker, March 19, 2001)
アイロンのある風景''Airon no aru fūkei''	''Landscape with Flatiron''
神の子どもたちはみな踊る''Kami no kodomotachi wa mina odoru''	''All God's Children Can Dance''
タイランド''Tairando''	''Thailand''
かえるくん、東京を救う''Kaeru-kun, Tōkyō wo sukuu''	''Super-Frog Saves Tokyo''
2000	蜂蜜パイ''Hachimitsu pai''	''Honey Pie'' (The New Yorker, August 20, 2001)
2002	バースデイ・ガール''Bāsudei gāru''	''Birthday Girl''
	偶然の旅人''Gūzen no tabibito''	''Chance Traveller''
ハナレイ・ベイ''Hanarei Bei''	''Hanalei Bay''
どこであれそれが見つかりそうな場所で''Doko de are sore ga mitsukarisō na basho de''	''Where I'm Likely to Find It'' (The New Yorker, May 2, 2005)
日々移動する腎臓のかたちをした石''Hibi idō suru jinzō no katachi wo shita ishi''	''The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day''
品川猿''Shinagawa saru''	''A Shinagawa Monkey'' (The New Yorker, February 13, 2006)
2011	???''???''	''Town of Cats'' (The New Yorker, September 5, 2011)

Essays and nonfiction

English		Japanese
! Year	! Title	! Year	! Title
N/A	''Rain, Burning Sun (Come Rain or Come Shine)''	1990	雨天炎天"Uten Enten"
N/A	''Portrait in Jazz''	1997	ポ－トレイト・イン・ジャズ"Pōtoreito in jazu"
2000		1997–1998	アンダーグラウンド"Andāguraundo"
N/A	''Portrait in Jazz 2''	2001	ポ－トレイト・イン・ジャズ 2"Pōtoreito in jazu 2"
2008	''What I Talk About When I Talk About Running''	2007	走ることについて語るときに僕の語ること"Hashiru koto ni tsuite kataru toki ni boku no kataru koto"
N/A	''It Ain't Got that Swing (If It Don't Mean a Thing)''	2008

Translations

C. D. B. Bryan - ''The Great Dethriffe''

Truman Capote - ''A Christmas Memory'', ''One Christmas'', ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'', ''I Remember Grandpa'', ''Children on Their Birthdays''

Raymond Carver - All Works of Raymond Carver

Raymond Chandler - ''Farewell, My Lovely'', ''The Long Goodbye''

Bill Crow - ''Jazz Anecdotes'', ''From Birdland to Broadway''

Terry Farish - ''The Cat Who Liked Potato Soup''

F. Scott Fitzgerald - ''My Lost City'', ''The Great Gatsby''

Jim Fusilli - ''The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds''

Mikal Gilmore - ''Shot in the Heart''

Mark Helprin - ''Swan Lake''

John Irving - ''Setting Free the Bears''

Ursula K. Le Guin - ''Catwings'', ''Catwings Return'', ''Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings'', ''Jane on her Own''

Tim O'Brien - ''The Nuclear Age'', ''The Things They Carried'', ''July, July''

Grace Paley - ''Enormous Changes at the Last Minute'', ''The Little Disturbances of Man''

J. D. Salinger - ''The Catcher in the Rye''

Mark Strand - ''Mr. and Mrs. Baby and Other Stories''

Paul Theroux - ''World's End and Other Stories''

Chris Van Allsburg - ''The Polar Express'', ''The Wretched Stone'', ''The Mysteries of Harris Burdick'', ''Ben's Dream'', ''Two Bad Ants'', ''The Sweetest Fig'', ''The Window's Broom'', ''The Stranger'', ''The Wreck of the Zephyer'', ''The Garden of Abdul Gasazi''

Translators of Murakami's works

Murakami's works have been translated into many languages. Below is a list of translators according to language (by alphabetical order):

Albanian - Etta Klosi,

Arabic - Saeed Alganmi, Iman Harrz Allah

Basque - Ibon Uribarri

Brazilian Portuguese - Ana Luiza Dantas Borges

Bulgarian - Ljudmil Ljutskanov

Catalan - Albert Nolla, Concepció Iribarren, Imma Estany, Jordi Mas

Chinese - 賴明珠/Lai Ming-zhu (Taiwan), 林少华/Lin Shao-hua (Chinese Mainland), 葉惠/Ye Hui (Hong Kong)

Croatian - Maja Šoljan, Vojo Šindolić, Mate Maras, Maja Tančik, Dinko Telećan

Czech - Tomáš Jurkovič

Danish - Mette Holm

Dutch - Elbrich Fennema, Jacques Westerhoven, L. van Haute

English - Alfred Birnbaum, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel, Hideo Levy (USA), Theodore W. Goossen (Canada)

Estonian - Kati Lindström, Kristina Uluots

Faroese - Pauli Nielsen

Finnish - Leena Tamminen, Ilkka Malinen, Juhani Lindholm

French - Corinne Atlan, Hélène Morita, Patrick De Vos, Véronique Brindeau

Galician - Mona Imai, Gabriel Álvarez Martínez

Georgian - Irakli Beriashvili

German - Ursula Gräfe, Nora Bierich, Sabine Mangold, Jürgen Stalph, Annelie Ortmanns

Greek - Maria Aggelidou, Thanasis Douvris, Leonidas Karatzas, Juri Kovalenko, Stelios Papazafeiropoulos, Giorgos Voudiklaris

Hebrew - Einat Cooper, Dr. Michal Daliot-Bul, Yonatan Friedman

Hungarian - Erdős György, Horváth Kriszta, Komáromy Rudolf

Icelandic - Uggi Jónsson

Indonesian - Jonjon Johana

Italian - Giorgio Amitrano, Antonietta Pastore

Korean - Kim Choon-Mie, Kim Nanjoo

Latvian - Ingūna Beķere

Lithuanian - Milda Dyke, Irena Jomantienė, Jūratė Nauronaitė, Marius Daškus, Dalia Saukaitytė, Ieva Stasiūnaitė, Ieva Susnytė

Norwegian - Ika Kaminka, Kari and Kjell Risvik

Persian - Gita Garakani, Mehdi Ghobarayi, Bozorgmehr Sharafoddin

Polish - Anna Zielinska-Elliott

Portuguese - Maria João Lourenço, Leiko Gotoda

Romanian - Angela Hondru, Silvia Cercheaza, Andreea Sion, Iuliana Tomescu

Russian - Dmitry V. Kovalenin, Ivan Sergeevich Logatchev, Sergey Ivanovich Logatchev, Anatoly Lyan

Serbian - Nataša Tomić, Divna Tomić

Slovak - Lucia Kružlíková

Slovene - Nika Cejan, Aleksander Mermal

Spanish - Lourdes Porta, Junichi Matsuura, Fernando Rodríguez-Izquierdo, Francisco Barberán

Swedish - Yukiko Duke, Eiko Duke, Vibeke Emond

Thai - Noppadol Vatsawat, Komsan Nantachit, Tomorn Sukprecha

Turkish - Pınar Polat, Nihal Önol, Hüseyin Can Erkin

Ukrainian - Ivan Dziub, Oleksandr Bibko

Vietnamese - Trinh Lu, Tran Tien Cao Dang, Duong Tuong, Cao Viet Dung, Pham Xuan Nguyen

References

Further reading

Pintor, Ivan. "David Lynch y Haruki Murakami, la llama en el umbral," in: VV.AA., Universo Lynch. Internacional Sitges Film Festival-Calamar, 2007 (ISBN 84-96235-16-5)

Rubin, Jay. ''Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words''. Harvill Press, 2002 (ISBN 1-86046-952-3)

Strecher, Matthew Carl. ''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Readers Guide''. Continuum Pub Group, 2002 (ISBN 0-8264-5239-6)

Strecher, Matthew Carl. ''Dances with Sheep: The Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki''. University of Michigan/Monographs in Japanese Studies, 2001. (ISBN 1-929280-07-6)

Suter, Rebecca. ''The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki Between Japan and the United States''. Harvard University Asian Center, 2008. (ISBN 978-0-674-02833-3)

External links

Haruki Murakami Official Website

"Translator Stephen Snyder predicts Nobel for Murakami" Center for the Art of Translation

Exorcising Ghosts - Haruki Murakami Resources

The New Yorker fiction by Haruki Murakami

Featured author in The New York Times

"The reception of Murakami Haruki in Taiwan", Yale University

Short Stories

The Folklore of Our Times

Hunting Knife

Hanalei Bay

Interviews

Interview with Laura Miller in ''Salon'', December 1997

Interview with Matt Thompson in The Guardian, May 26, 2001

Interview with Velisarios Kattoulas, Time Asia, November 25, 2002

An interview with Roland Kelts, The Japan Times, December 1, 2002

An interview with Richard Williams in The Guardian, May 17, 2003

Philip Gabriel">A Conversation with Philip Gabriel

Interview with Roland Kelts from 3:AM Magazine

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Name	Just Jack
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Jack Christopher Allsopp
Birth date	May 18, 1975
Origin	Camden Town, London, UK
Genre	Dance pop, hip hop, garage
Years active	2002–present
Label	RGR Records (2002-2003) Mercury (2006–present)
Website	JustJack.co.uk }}

Jack Christopher Allsopp (born 18 May 1975), known by the stage name Just Jack, is an English musician from Camden Town, London. He first came to prominence with the release of his 2007 single "Starz in Their Eyes", which reached number two on the UK Singles Chart. He has also since been known for the songs "Embers", peaking at number 17, and "The Day I Died", which peaked at number 11.

Background

Born in Camden, Allsopp grew up listening to dance music including breakdance, electro hip hop and house. An amateur breakdancer at eight, he started DJing at the age of 15 and he soon became submerged in DJ culture and UK garage.

After completing a degree in Furniture Design at Kingston University, he enrolled in a community music production course, so that he could better his awareness of sampling and its potential for use. He went on to practice on perfecting his sound by night and to take on a series of jobs by day.

Career

Allsopp's debut album, titled ''The Outer Marker'', released in 2002 by the independent label RGR Records, was a collection of songs about modern life, relationships, and the pressures of social situations. The album spawned three singles "Paradise (Lost & Found)", "Snowflakes" and "Triple Tone Eyes". "Snowflakes", his first song to enter the charts at number 164, samples The Cure's song "Lullaby" off of their album ''Disintegration''.

He did not gain fame until 2007, following his TV debut on BBC2's ''Later... with Jools Holland'', and then on the Channel 4 show ''The Friday Night Project'', where he performed the single "Starz in Their Eyes", which reached number two in the UK Singles Chart. The following three singles from the album ''Overtones'', "Glory Days", "Writer's Block" and "No Time" did not make the top thirty. "Starz In Their Eyes" was also featured in the Dolce & Gabbana Summer 2008 fashion show, and the Xbox 360 Kinect game ''Kinect Sports''. He also collaborated with Kylie Minogue on the song "I Talk Too Much", for the American release of ''Overtones''.

Alsopp performed at Glastonbury Festival, V Festival and T4 on the Beach in 2007 and again at Glastonbury Festival in 2009. He also performed at Guilfest in 2010.

He released his third album ''All Night Cinema'' on 31 August 2009, preceded by its first single "Embers", which had its premiere on BBC Radio 1 on 12 January 2009, and second single "The Day I Died", which became Jack's second highest charting single on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 11. Both singles peaked inside the top 20. The original choice for second single was "Doctor Doctor" but the single release was subsequently postponed.

He performed at the "Nuit de l'ESSEC" on 29 January 2011.

Jack Recently announced on Facebook "So close to finishing a 5 track EP. Just need to find a home for it..."

Discography

Albums

{| class=wikitable style=text-align:center; ! rowspan=2| Year ! rowspan=2| Album ! colspan=5| Highest ranking |- style=font-size:smaller; ! width=50| UK ! width=50| IRL ! width=50| FRA ! width=50| SWI ! width=50| DUT |- | 2002 | align=left| ''The Outer Marker''

1st Studio Album

Released: 30 September 2002

Genre: Hip hop, trip hop

Label: RGR

| – | – | – | – | – |- | 2007 | align=left| ''Overtones''

2nd Studio Album

Released: 29 January 2007

Genre: Hip hop, House

Label: Mercury Records

| 6 | 11 | 25 | 69 | 74 |- | 2009 | align=left| ''All Night Cinema''

3rd Studio Album

Released: 31 August 2009

Genre: Pop, Electro

Label: Mercury Records

| 22 | – | 94 | – | – |- |}

Singles

Year	Title	Chart Positions						Album
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	"Paradise (Lost & Found)"
	"Snowflakes"
"Triple Tone Eyes"
	"Starz In Their Eyes"
"The Day I Died"

References

External links

Just Jack official website

Just Jack @ MySpace

Just Jack interview at mychemicaltoilet.com

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Name	Fred Stoller
Birth name	Frederick Stoller
Birth date	March 19, 1965 (age 46)
Birth place	Chicago, Illinois
Medium	Film, television, stand-up
Nationality	American
Active	1989–present
Genre	Comedy
Religion	jewish
Notable works	''Everybody Loves Raymond''
Website	}}

Frederick "Fred" Stoller (born March 19, 1965) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and voice artist, best known for his frequent guest starring as Gerard on the CBS sitcom ''Everybody Loves Raymond''. He has also made guest appearances on several additional TV series as well as having written two episodes of ''Seinfeld''.

Filmography

''Fred & Vinnie'' (2011) – Fred

''Open Season 3'' (2010) – Stanley

''Open Season 2'' (2008) – Stanley

''Little Man'' (2006) – Richard

''Rebound'' (2005) – Late Carl

''Austin Powers in Goldmember'' (2002) – Melon Guy

''The Animal'' (2001) – Journalist

''Joe Dirt'' (2001) – Chemistry Teacher

''Ski Hard'' (1995) – Mel Horner

''Dumb and Dumber'' (1994) – Man Next to the Phone Booth

Television work

''Happily Divorced'' (1 episode, 2011)

''The Super Hero Squad Show'' (1 episode, 2010) – Molecule Man

''The Penguins of Madagascar'' (12 episodes, 2009-2011 as Fred the Squirrel)

''Hannah Montana'' (1 episode, 2008 as Howard)

''2 Girls, 1 Cup: The Show'' (1 episode, 2008)

''My Name Is Earl'' (1 episode, 2007)

''Word Girl'' (2007-present; voices Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy)

''Handy Manny'' (88 episodes, 2006) – Rusty the Pipe Wrench

''Suite Life of Zack and Cody'' (1 episode, 2006)

''Drake & Josh'' (1 episode, 2005 as Lenny Spodnick)

''Random! Cartoons'' (episode "Call Me Bessie", 2007)

''Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide'' (8 episodes, 2004-2007 as Mr. Lowe)

''Cory in the House'' (1 episode, 2007)

''All Grown Up!'' (numerous episodes, 2003–2006)

''Scrubs'' (2 episodes, 2002–2005)

''Raising Dad'' (3 episodes, 2001–2002)

''Dharma & Greg'' (1 episode, 2001)

''The King of Queens'' (1 episode, 2000)

''The Norm Show'' (3 episodes, 1999)

''Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (TV series)'' (1 episode as "CK" in "You Bet Your Family", 1998, and 1 episode as the "Warning Guy" in a cone suit, 1999)

''Everybody Loves Raymond'' (8 episodes, 1998–2003)

''The Nanny'' (4 episodes, 1997-1999 as Fred the Pharmacist)

''Friends'' (1997, 2001)

''Alright Already'' (1997)

''Seinfeld'' (2 episodes, 1995)

''The Drew Carey Show'' (1 episode, 1995)

''Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist'' (5 episodes, 1995–1997)

External links

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