Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami 村上 春樹
Murakami in 2009
Gebore	12 Januarie 1949 (1949-01-12) (75 jaar oud) Kyoto, Japan
Nasionaliteit	Japan
Alma mater	Waseda Universiteit
Beroep	Romansier, kortverhaalskrywer, vertaler
Webwerf	www.harukimurakami.com
Handtekening

Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹, Murakami Haruki^?, gebore op 12 Januarie 1949) is 'n Japannese skrywer. Sy boeke en verhale is topverkopers in beide die Japannese en internasionale mark.

Sy boeke is in vyftig tale vertaal,^[1] en miljoene eksemplare daarvan is wêreldwyd verkoop.^[2][3]

Sy werk het verskeie pryse gewen, insluitend die Wêreld Fantasie-prys, die Frank O'Connor Internasionale Kortverhaal-prys, die Franz Kafka-prys, en die Jerusalem-prys.

Murakami se noemenswaardige werke sluit in A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), Norwegian Wood (roman) (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95), Kafka on the Shore (2002), en 1Q84 (2009–10). Hy het ook werke van onder andere Raymond Carver en J. D. Salinger in Japannees vertaal.

Sy fiksie, wat somtyds gekritiseer is deur die Japannese literêre establishment as on-Japannees,^[4][5] is beïnvloed deur Westerse skrywers; van ^[6] Raymond Chandler tot Kurt Vonnegut en Richard Brautigan.

Sy werk is dikwels van 'n surrealistiese en melancholiese of fatalistiese aard, en word deur 'n Kafkaeskiese weergawe van die "herhalende temas van sosiale vervreemding en eensaamheid" gekenmerk^[7] wat hy vervleg in sy diskoerse. Steven Poole van The Guardian het Murakami geprys as "van die wêreld se grootste lewende romansiers".^[8]

1. ↑ Curtis Brown (2014), "Haruki Murakami now available in 50 languages", curtisbrown.co.uk, 27 Februarie 2014: "Following a recent Malay deal Haruki Marukami's work is now available in 50 languages worldwide."
2. ↑ Maiko, Hisada (November 1995). "Murakami Haruki". Kyoto Sangyo University (in Engels). Geargiveer vanaf die oorspronklike op 19 Julie 2009. Besoek op 24 April 2008.
3. ↑ McCurry, Justin, "Secrets and advice: Haruki Murakami posts first responses in agony uncle role", The Guardian, 16 Januarie 2015.
4. ↑ Poole, Steven (13 September 2014). "Haruki Murakami: 'I'm an outcast of the Japanese literary world'". The Guardian (in Engels). London. Geargiveer vanaf die oorspronklike op 21 Desember 2019. Murakami doesn't read many of his Japanese contemporaries. Does he feel detached from his home scene? "It's a touchy topic", he says, chuckling. "I'm a kind of outcast of the Japanese literary world. I have my own readers ... But critics, writers, many of them don't like me." Why is that? "I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind of an ugly duckling. Always the duckling, never the swan."
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6. ↑ !--CARVER, SALINGER, KAFKA are already cited above and below, so we add three other main ones here:-->
7. ↑ Endelstein, Wendy, What Haruki Murakami talks about when he talks about writing, UC Berkeley News, 15 Oktober 2008, besoek op 12 Augustus 2014.
8. ↑ Poole, Steven (27 Mei 2000). "Tunnel vision". The Guardian. Londen. Besoek op 24 April 2009.