Coordinates	51°12′″N58°34′″N
name	Kenzaburō Ōe
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birth date	January 31, 1935
birth place	Uchiko, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
occupation	Novelist, Short story writer, Essayist
nationality	Japanese
period	1950–present
notableworks	A Personal Matter, The Silent Cry
influences	Mark Twain, Selma Lagerlöf, William Blake, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hikari Ōe
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is a Japanese author and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His works, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issues including nuclear weapons, social non-conformism and existentialism.

Ōe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994 for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today."

Life

Ōe was born in , a village now in Uchiko, Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku in Japan. He was the third son of seven children. Ōe's grandmother taught him art and oral performance. His grandmother died in 1944, and later that year, Ōe's father died in the Pacific War. Ōe's mother took over his father's role as educator. The books she bought him - ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' and ''The Wonderful Adventures of Nils'' - left him with an impression Ōe says 'he will carry to the grave'.

After attending local school, Ōe transferred to a high school in Matsuyama. At the age of 18, he made his first trip to Tokyo and in the following year began studying French Literature at Tokyo University under the direction of Professor Kazuo Watanabe, a specialist on François Rabelais. He began publishing stories in 1957 while still a student, strongly influenced by contemporary writing in France and the United States.

He married in February 1960. His wife, Yukari, was the sister of film director Juzo Itami. The same year he met Mao Zedong on a trip to China. He also went to Russia and Europe the following year, visiting Sartre in Paris.

Ōe now lives in Tokyo. He has three children; the eldest son, Hikari, has been brain-damaged since his birth in 1963, and his disability has been a recurring motif in Ōe's writings since then.

In 2004, Ōe lent his name and support to those opposing proposed changes in the post-war Japanese constitution of 1947. His views were seen as controversial by those who wanted Japan to abandon the constitutional impediment to "the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes," which is explicitly renounced in Article 9.

In 2005, two retired Japanese military officers sued Ōe for libel for his 1970 essay, ''Okinawa Notes'', in which he had written that members of the Japanese military had coerced masses of Okinawan civilians into committing suicide during the Allied invasion of the island in 1945. In March 2008, the Osaka District Court dismissed all charges against Ōe. In this ruling, Judge Toshimasa Fukami stated, "The military was deeply involved in the mass suicides". In a news conference following the trial, Ōe said, "The judge accurately read my writing."

Writing

Ōe's output falls into a series of groups, successively dealing with different themes. He explained, shortly after learning that he'd been awarded the Nobel Prize, "I am writing about the dignity of human beings."

After his first student works set in his own university milieu, in the late 1950s he produced several works (such as 飼育 (Shiiku), known as 'The Catch', 'Prize Stock', or 'Prize Catch', made into a film by Nagisa Oshima) and ''Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids'') focusing on young children living in Arcadian transformations of Ōe's own rural Shikoku childhood. He later identified these child figures as belonging to the 'child god' archetype of Jung and Kerényi, which is characterised by abandonment, hermaphrodism, invincibility, and association with beginning and end. The first two characteristics are present in these early stories, while the latter two features come to the fore in the 'idiot boy' stories which appeared after the birth of Hikari.

Between 1958 and 1961 Ōe published a series of works incorporating sexual metaphors for the occupation of Japan. He summarised the common theme of these stories as "the relationship of a foreigner as the big power [Z], a Japanese who is more or less placed in a humiliating position [X], and, sandwiched between the two, the third party [Y] (sometimes a prostitute who caters only to foreigners or an interpreter)". In each of these works, the Japanese X is inactive, failing to take the initiative to resolve the situation and showing no psychological or spiritual development. The graphically sexual nature of this group of stories prompted a critical outcry; Ōe said of the culmination of the series ''Our Times'', "I personally like this novel [because] I do not think I will ever write another novel which is filled only with sexual words."

Ōe's next phase moved away from sexual content, shifting this time toward the violent fringes of society. The works which he published between 1961 and 1964 are influenced by existentialism and picaresque literature, populated with more or less criminal rogues and anti-heroes whose position on the fringes of society allows them to make pointed criticisms of it. Ōe's admission that Mark Twain's ''Huckleberry Finn'' is his favorite book can be said to find a context in this period.

Hikari was a strong influence on ''Father, Where are you Going?'', ''Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness,'' and ''The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away,'' three novels which rework the same premise—the father of a disabled son attempts to recreate the life of his own father, who shut himself away and died. The protagonist's ignorance of his father is compared to his son's inability to understand him; the lack of information about his father's story makes the task impossible to complete, but capable of endless repetition, and, "repetition becomes the fabric of the stories". More generally, Ōe believes that novelists have always worked to spur the imagination of their readers.

''Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness'' introduces 'Mori' as a name for the 'idiot-son' (Ōe's own term); 'Mori' means both 'to die' and 'idiocy' in Latin, and 'forest' in Japanese. This association between the disabled boy and the forest recurs in later works such as ''The Waters Are Come in unto My Soul'' and ''M/T and the narrative about the marvels of the forest''.

The Nobel laureate believes that he is a very Japanese writer. He said, "I have always wanted to write about our country, our society and feelings about the contemporary scene. But there is a big difference between us and classic Japanese literature." In 1994, he explained that he was proud the Swedish Academy recognized the strength of modern Japanese literature and hoped the prize would encourage others.

Ōe's novella ''The Catch'', about the treatment of an African-American soldier shot down during World War II by Japanese villagers, was made into a film by Nagisa Oshima and released in 1961.

According to Leo Lee Ou-fan writing in ''Muse'', Ōe's latest works tend 'toward bolder experiments with the technique of "defamiliarization" by negotiating his narratives across several imaginary landscapes pertaining to painting, film, drama, music and architecture.'

Writing about his son, Hikari

Kenzaburō Ōe credits his son for influencing his literary career. Kenzaburō tried to give his son a "voice" through his writing. Several of Kenzaburō's books feature a character based on his son.

In Kenzaburō's 1964 book, ''A Personal Matter,'' the writer describes the pain involved in accepting his brain-damaged son into his life. Hikari figures prominately in many of the books singled out for praise by the Nobel committee:

Hikari's life is the core of the first book published after Kenzaburō was awarded the Nobel Prize. The 1996 book, ''A Healing Family,'' celebrates the small victories in Hikari's life.

Silence

Ōe did not write much during the nearly two years he was involved in a trial from 2006 to 2008. He is beginning a new novel, which ''The New York Times'' reported would feature a character "based on his father", a staunch supporter of the imperial system who drowned in a flood during World War II. Another projected character is a contemporary young Japanese woman who “rejects everything about Japan” and in one act tries to destroy the imperial order." In this, as in so much else, Kenzaburo Ōe remains the master of an ambiguous Japanese expression, exploring that which is neither white nor black, but somewhere in between.

Honors

Akutagawa Prize, 1958.

Shinchosha Literary Prize, 1964.

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Prize, 1967.

Jiro Osaragi Prize (''Asahi Shimbun''), 1983.

Noma Prize, 1973.

Nobel Prize in Literature, 1994. Order of Culture, 1994 - refused.

Selected works

The number of Kenzaburo Ōe's works translated into English and other languages remains limited. His literary output includes many publications which are still only available in Japanese.

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Kenzaburo Ōe, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 700 works in 1,500+ publications in 28 languages and 27,000+ library holdings. List of books available in English

''Memeushiri Kouchi,'' 1958 - Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (trans. by Paul Mackintosh & Maki Sugiyama)

''Sebuntiin,'' 1961- Seventeen (Trans. by Luk Van Haute)

''Seiteki Ningen'' 1963 Sexual Humans, published as J (Trans. by Luk Van Haute)

''Kojinteki na taiken,'' 1964 - A Personal Matter (trans. by John Nathan)

''Hiroshima noto,'' 1965 - Hiroshima Notes (trans. by David L. Swain, Toshi Yonezawa)

''Man'en gannen no futtoboru,'' 1967 - The Silent Cry (trans. by John Bester)

''Warera no kyōki wo ikinobiru michi wo oshieyo,'' 1969 - Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness (1977)

''Mizukara waga namida wo nuguitamau hi,'' 1972 - The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away ''in'' Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness (1977)

''Pinchiranna chosho,''' 1976 - The Pinch Runner Memorandum (trans. by Michiko N. Wilson)

''Atarashii hito yo mezame yo,'' 1983 - Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! (trans. by John Nathan)

''Jinsei no shinseki,'' 1989 - An Echo of Heaven (trans. by Margaret Mitsutani)

''Shizuka-na seikatsu,'' 1990 - A Quiet Life (trans. by Kunioki Yanagishita & William Wetherall)

''Kaifuku suru kakozu,'' 1995 - A Healing Family (trans. by Stephen Snyder, ill. by Yukari Oe)

''Chugaeri,'' 1999 - Somersault (trans. by Philip Gabriel)

''Torikae ko (Chenjiringu),'' 2000 - The Changeling (trans. by Deborah Boehm)

Year	Japanese Title	English Title	Comments
	奇妙な仕事''Kimyou na shigoto''	''The Strange Work''	His first short story
死者の奢り''Shisha no ogori''	''Lavish Are The Dead''	Short story
他人の足''Tanin no ashi''	''Someone Else's Feet''	Short story
飼育''Shiiku''	''Prize Stock''	Short story awarded the Akutagawa prize
	見るまえに跳べ''Miru mae ni tobe''	''Leap before you look''	Short story
芽むしり仔撃ち''Memushiri kouchi''	''Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids''	His first novel
1961	セヴンティーン''Sevuntīn''	''Seventeen''	Short novel
	叫び声''Sakebigoe''	''Cry''
性的人間 ''Seiteki ningen''	''The sexual man'' (Also known as "J")	Short story
	空の怪物アグイー''Sora no kaibutsu Aguī''	''Aghwee the Sky Monster''	Short story
個人的な体験''Kojinteki na taiken''	''A Personal Matter''	Awarded the Shinchosha Literary Prize
	厳粛な綱渡り''Genshuku na tsunawatari''	''The solemn rope-walking''	Essay
ヒロシマ・ノート''Hiroshima nōto''	''Hiroshima Notes''	Reportage
1967	万延元年のフットボール''Man'en gan'nen no futtobōru''	''The Silent Cry''	Awarded the Jun'ichirō Tanizaki prize
1968	持続する志''Jizoku suru kokorozashi''	''Continuous will''	Essay
1969	われらの狂気を生き延びる道を教えよ''Warera no kyōki wo ikinobiru michi wo oshieyo''	''Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness''
	壊れものとしての人間''Kowaremono toshiteno ningen''	''Human being as a fragile article''	Essay
核時代の想像力''Kakujidai no sozouryoku''	''Imagination of the atomic age''	Talk
沖縄ノート''Okinawa nōto''	''Okinawa Notes''	Reportage
	鯨の死滅する日''Kujira no shimetsu suru hi''	''The day whales vanish''	Essay
みずから我が涙をぬぐいたまう日''Mizukara waga namida wo nuguitamau hi''	''The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away''
	同時代としての戦後''Doujidai toshiteno sengo''	''The post-war times as contemporaries''	Essay
洪水はわが魂に及び''Kōzui wa waga tamashii ni oyobi''	''The Flood invades my spirit''	Awarded the Noma Literary Prize
1976	ピンチランナー調書''Pinchi ran'nā chōsho''	''The Pinch Runner Memorandum''
1979	同時代ゲーム ''Dojidai gemu''	''The Game of Contemporaneity''
1980	(現代 ゲーム) ''Ume no chiri''	''Sometimes the Heart of the Turtle''
1982	「雨の木」を聴く女たち ''Rein tsurī wo kiku on'natachi''	''Women listening to the "rain tree"''	Awarded the Yomiuri Literary Prize
1983	新しい人よ眼ざめよ''Atarashii hito yo, mezameyo''	''Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!''	Awarded the Jiro Osaragi prize
1984	いかに木を殺すか''Ikani ki wo korosu ka''	''How do we kill the tree ?''
1985	河馬に嚙まれる''Kaba ni kamareru''	''Bitten by the hippopotamus''	Awarded the Yasunari Kawabata Literary Prize
1986	M/Tと森のフシギの物語''M/T to mori no fushigi no monogatari''
1987	懐かしい年への手紙 ''Natsukashī tosi eno tegami''	''Letters for nostalgic years''
	「最後の小説」 '' 'Saigo no syousetu' ''	'' 'The last novel' ''	Essay
新しい文学のために''Atarashii bungaku no tame ni''	''For the new literature''	Essay
キルプの軍団''Kirupu no gundan''	''The army of Quilp
1989	人生の親戚''Jinsei no shinseki''	''An Echo of Heaven''	Awarded the Sei Ito Literary Prize
	治療塔''Chiryou tou''	''The tower of treatment''
静かな生活''Shizuka na seikatsu''	''A Quiet Life''
1991	治療塔惑星''Chiryou tou wakusei''	''The tower of treatment and the planet''
1992	僕が本当に若かった頃''Boku ga hontou ni wakakatta koro''	''The time that I was really young''
1993	「救い主」が殴られるまで'' 'Sukuinushi' ga nagurareru made''	''Until the Savior Gets Socked''	燃えあがる緑の木　第一部 ''Moeagaru midori no ki dai ichi bu''''The Flaming Green Tree Trilogy I''
1994	揺れ動く (ヴァシレーション)''Yureugoku (Vashirēshon)''	''Vacillating''	燃えあがる緑の木　第二部 ''Moeagaru midori no ki dai ni bu''''The Flaming Green Tree Trilogy II''
	大いなる日に''Ōinaru hi ni''	''On the Great Day''	燃えあがる緑の木　第三部 ''Moeagaru midori no ki dai san bu''''The Flaming Green Tree Trilogy III''
曖昧な日本の私''Aimai na Nihon no watashi''	''Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself: The Nobel Prize Speech and Other Lectures''	Talk
恢復する家族''Kaifukusuru kazoku''	''A Healing Family''	Essay with Yukari Oe
1999	宙返り''Chūgaeri''
2000	取り替え子 (チェンジリング)''Torikae ko (Chenjiringu)''	''The Changeling''
2001	「自分の木」の下で'' 'Jibun no ki' no shita de''	'' Under the 'tree of mine' ''	Essay with Yukari Oe
2002	憂い顔の童子''Ureigao no dōji''	''The Infant with a Melancholic Face''
	「新しい人」の方へ'' 'Atarashii hito' no hou he''	'' Toward the 'new man' ''	Essay with Yukari Oe
二百年の子供''Nihyaku nen no kodomo''	''The children of 200 years''
2005	さようなら、私の本よ!''Sayōnara, watashi no hon yo!''	''Farewell, My Books!''
2007	臈たしアナベル・リイ　総毛立ちつ身まかりつ''Routashi Anaberu rī souke dachitu mimakaritu''	''The beautiful Annabel Lee was chilled and killed
2009	水死''sui shi''	''Death by Water''

Nobel lecture

Ōe's Nobel lecture on December 7, 1994, entitled "Aimai na Nihon no watashi" (''Japan, the Ambiguous and Myself'') began with a commentary on his life as a child and how he was fascinated by ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' and ''The Wonderful Adventures of Nils'', which he used in his escapism from the terror of World War II. He described surviving various hardships in his life by using writing as an escape, "representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.", and how his son Hikari similarly uses music as a method of expressing "the voice of a crying and dark soul".

Ōe dedicated a large portion of his speech to his opinion of Yasunari Kawabata's acceptance speech, saying that the vagueness of Kawabata's title and his discussions of the poems written by medieval Zen monks were the inspiration for the title of his acceptance speech. Ōe, however, stated that rather than feeling spiritual affinity with his compatriot Kawabata, he felt more affinity with the Irish poet, William Butler Yeats, whose poetry had a significant effect on his writings and his life, even being a major inspiration for his trilogy, ''A Flaming Green Tree'' and the source of its title. Ōe stated, "Yeats is the writer in whose wake I would like to follow." He mentioned that based on his experiences of Japan, he cannot utter in unison with Kawabata the phrase "Japan, the Beautiful and Myself". Ōe also discussed the revival of militaristic feelings in Japan and the necessity for rejecting these feelings, and how Ōe desired to be of use in a cure and reconciliation of mankind.

Notes

References

Ōe, Kenzaburō. (1968). ''Ōe Kenzaburō Zensakuhin'' (''Complete Works of Oe Kenzaburo'').Tokyo: Shinchosha.

_____________. (1978). ''Shosetsu no hoho'' (''The Method of a Novel''). Tokyo: Iwanami.

Wilson, Michiko N. (1986). ''The Marginal World of Ōe Kenzaburō: A Study in Themes and Techniques.'' Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe. 13-ISBN 978-0-87332-343-7 (cloth) -- 13-ISBN 978-1-56324-580-0 (paper)

External links

Nobel Biography

Nobel Laureate page

Kenzaburō Ōe Prize

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Coordinates	51°12′″N58°34′″N
name	Paulo Coelho
birth date	August 24, 1947
birth place	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
occupation	Novelist, Lyricist
nationality	Brazilian
genre	Drama, Psychological
influenced by	Bible, Quran, Jesus
influences	Jorge Luis Borges, William Blake, Jorge Amado, Henry Miller
magnum opus	The Alchemist }}

Paulo Coelho (; born August 24, 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist.

Biography

Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He attended a Jesuit school. As a teenager, Coelho wanted to become a writer. Upon telling his mother this, she responded with "My dear, your father is an engineer. He's a logical, reasonable man with a very clear vision of the world. Do you actually know what it means to be a writer?" After researching, Coelho concluded that a writer "always wears glasses and never combs his hair" and has a "duty and an obligation never to be understood by his own generation," amongst other things. At 17, Coelho's introversion and opposition to following a traditional path led to his parents committing him to a mental institution from which he escaped three times before being released at the age of 20. Coelho later remarked that "It wasn't that they wanted to hurt me, but they didn't know what to do... They did not do that to destroy me, they did that to save me."

At his parents' wishes, Coelho enrolled in law school and abandoned his dream of becoming a writer. One year later, he dropped out and lived life as a hippie, traveling through South America, North Africa, Mexico, and Europe and becoming immersed in the drug culture of the 1960s. Upon his return to Brazil, Coelho worked as a songwriter, composing lyrics for Elis Regina, Rita Lee, and Brazilian icon Raul Seixas. Composing with Raul led to Paulo being associated with satanism and occultism, due to the content of some songs. In 1974, Coelho was arrested for "subversive" activities by the ruling military government, who had taken power ten years earlier and viewed his lyrics as left-wing and dangerous. Coelho also worked as an actor, journalist, and theatre director before pursuing his writing career.

In 1986, Coelho walked the 500-plus mile Road of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain, a turning point in his life. On the path, Coelho had a spiritual awakening, which he described autobiographically in ''The Pilgrimage''. In an interview, Coelho stated "[In 1986], I was very happy in the things I was doing. I was doing something that gave me food and water – to use the metaphor in "The Alchemist", I was working, I had a person who I loved, I had money, but I was not fulfilling my dream. My dream was, and still is, to be a writer." Coelho would leave his lucrative career as a songwriter and pursue writing full-time.

Writing career

In 1982 Coelho published his first book, ''Hell Archives'', which failed to make any kind of impact. In 1986 he contributed to the ''Practical Manual of Vampirism'', although he later tried to take it off the shelves since he considered it “of bad quality." After making the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in 1986, Coelho wrote ''The Pilgrimage''. The following year, Coelho wrote ''The Alchemist'' and published it through a small Brazilian publishing house who made an initial print run of 900 copies and decided not to reprint. He subsequently found a bigger publishing house, and with the publication of his next book ''Brida'', ''The Alchemist'' became a Brazilian bestseller. ''The Alchemist'' has gone on to sell more than 65 million copies, becoming one of the best-selling books in history, and has been translated into more than 70 languages, the 71st being Maltese, winning the Guinness World Record for most translated book by a living author.

Since the publication of ''The Alchemist'', Coelho has generally written one novel every two years including ''By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept'', ''The Fifth Mountain'', ''Veronika Decides to Die'', ''The Devil and Miss Prym'', ''Eleven Minutes'', ''Like the Flowing River'', ''The Valkyries'' and ''The Witch of Portobello''. This dates back to ''The Pilgrimage''; while trying to overcome his procrastination of launching his writing career, Coelho said "If I see a white feather today, that is a sign that God is giving me that I have to write a new book." Coelho found a white feather in the window of a shop, and began writing that day.

In total, Coelho has published 29 books. Two of them – ''The Pilgrimage'' and ''The Valkyries'' – are autobiographical, while the majority of the rest are fictional, although rooted in his life experiences. Others, like ''Maktub'' and ''The Manual of the Warrior of Light'', are collections of essays, newspaper columns, or selected teachings. In total, Coelho has sold more than 100 million books in over 150 countries worldwide, and his works have been translated into 67 languages. He is the all-time bestselling Portuguese language author.

Currently, Coelho publishes short stories for Ode Magazine. Every issue devotes a page to Coelho for his writing pleasure.

Adaptations

Several of Coelho's books have been adapted into other media.

In 1998, TV Manchete made a 52-episode miniseries based on Brida. This adaptation was written by Jayme Camargo, Sônia Mota and Agélica Lopes, and directed by ''Walter Avancini''. The Brazilian actress ''Carolina Kasting'' played Brida. It was the last novel filmed by TV Manchete. It was an audience failure and this adaptation was even reproved by Paulo Coelho himself. Due to the lack of sponsors, it had a premature ending: the last scenes were not recorded, being replaced by screenshots with narrations.

In 2004, Warner Bros. bought the rights to the film adaptation of ''The Alchemist.'' The project stalled and the movie never materialized, reportedly for problems with the script. At the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Harvey Weinstein announced that he had bought the rights to the film and will serve as its producer. Laurence Fishburne is set to direct, and to play the eponymous character. The movie will have a reported budget of $60 million. ''Veronika Decides to Die'' has also been adapted into a screenplay by Das Films with Muse Productions and Velvet Steamroller Entertainment. The film began shooting on May 12, 2008 with Emily Young directing and Sarah Michelle Gellar starring.

In June '''2007'', Paulo Coelho announced The Experimental pousi Project, a collaborative project based on ''The Witch of Portobello''.

File sharing

Paulo Coelho is a strong advocate of spreading his books through peer-to-peer file sharing networks. A fan posted a Russian translation of one of his novels online. Sales of his book jumped from 3,000 to one million in three years, with no additional promotion or publicity from his publishers. Coelho took to pirating his own books on The Pirate Bay. Coelho provides free translations of many of his books. He was caught by the head of HarperCollins, Jane Friedman, who noticed that one of the unauthorized versions Coelho linked to had notes from his own manuscript. The two reached a compromise: each month a new novel can be read for free on the publisher's website. Due to the openness regarding his content, author Jeff Jarvis named Coelho 'the Googliest author' in his book ''What Would Google Do''.

Personal life

Coelho and his wife Christina Oiticica split their time between Europe and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is a Roman Catholic and although he attends Mass, he disagrees with the Pope on several issues, both political and social.

In 1996, Coelho founded the Paulo Coelho Institute, which provides aid to children and elderly people with financial problems. In September 2007, Coelho was named a Messenger of Peace to the UN.

Member of the Board of the Shimon Peres Center for Peace

UNESCO special counsellor for “Intercultural Dialogues and Spiritual Convergences”

Board Member of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship

Member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters

Member of INI International Advisory Council – HARVARD INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATION INITIATIVE

Member of the Board, Doha Center of Media Freedom

Advisory Board Member, Maybach Foundation

On May 9, 2006,in Sofia, Bulgaria, Paulo Coehlo was awarded by the President of Bulgaria Georgi Parvanov the "The Honorable Award of the President of the Republic".

Bibliography

''Note: Although the biography section of Coelho's website states that his first book was published in 1982, the ''Official Fan Club Paulo Coelho'' website lists two additional books published in 1974: ''The Manifest of Krig-há'' and ''Theater For Education''. ''

Year	Portuguese Title	English Title
1974	''O Manifesto de Krig-há''	''The Manifest of Krig-há''
1974	''Teatro da Educação''	''Theater For Education''
1982	''Arquivos do Inferno''	''Hell Archives''
1986	''O Manual Prático do Vampirismo''	''Practical Manual of Vampirism''
1987	''O Diário de Um Mago''	''The Pilgrimage''
1988	''O Alquimista''
1990	''Brida''
1991	''O Dom Supremo''
1992	''As Valkírias''
	''Maktub''
''Na margem do rio Piedra eu sentei e chorei''	''By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept''
1996	''O Monte Cinco''	''The Fifth Mountain''
	''Letras do amor de um profeta''	''Love Letters from a Prophet''
''Manual do guerreiro da luz''	''The Manual of the Warrior of Light''
	''Veronika decide morrer''	''Veronika Decides to Die''
''Palavras essenciais''	''Essential Words''
2000	''O Demônio e a srta Prym''	''The Devil and Miss Prym''
2001	''Histórias para pais, filhos e netos''	''Fathers, Sons and Grandsons''
2003	''Onze Minutos''	''Eleven Minutes''
	''E no sétimo dia''	''And on the Seventh Day'' (collection of the novels ''By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept'', ''Veronika Decides to Die'' and ''The Devil and Miss Prym'')
''O Gênio e as Rosas''	''The Genie and the Roses
''Viagens''	''Journeys''
	''O Zahir''
''Caminhos Recolhidos''	''Revived Paths
	''Ser como um rio que flui''	''Like the Flowing River''
''A bruxa de Portobello''	''The Witch of Portobello''
2007	''Vida: Citações selecionadas''	''Life: Selected Quotations''
2008	''O Vencedor está Só''	''The Winner Stands Alone''
2010	''O Aleph''	''The Aleph'' (published in Brasil and Turkey; to be released worldwide in 2011)

References

External links

Glauco Ortolano Interview, ''World Literature Today''

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Paulo's official Quotes Page : Find Paulo's Quotes in english and other languages, comment on them

Warrior of the Light Online

What's it like to be the alchemist? Interview with Forward Magazine, April 2009

Appearance on ''Desert Island Discs'', BBC-Radio July 4, 3 2005

Articles on openDemocracy

A 1988 video interview

Paulo Coelho's Interview with The Himalayan Times, Nepal

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Paulo Coelho on Goodreads

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Paulo Coelho Fanclub Switzerland

Stephen Capen Interview on Worldguide, Futurist Radio Hour – October 14, 1995

Interview given to the podcast 'Jovem Nerd' – October 15, 2010

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Coordinates	51°12′″N58°34′″N
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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