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Biographie de Haruki Murakami

In 1978, Haruki MURAKAMI was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon.
His books became bestsellers and have been translated into more than 50 languages, and he has received many honours, including the Franz Kafka Prize. His works include non-fiction, such as What I Talk About When ! Talk About Running and Absolutely on Music, short story collections like Men Without Women, and the masterful novels The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1084 and Killing Commendatore. He is one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.