![]() ![]() The novel struck a chord with Japanese culture and sold millions of copies, catapulting Murakami to international fame. After publishing the sci-fi novel Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World in 1985, Murakami returned to realism with 1987’s Norwegian Wood. ![]() As Murakami continued writing and publishing fiction, his novels began to transform from autobiographical coming-of-age tales into more surrealist, speculative, operatic works. He completed his first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, in just 10 months, and published it to great acclaim in 1979. In his late twenties, Murakami-inspired by the work of Raymond Chandler, Kurt Vonnegut, and Richard Brautigan, among others-began writing fiction. After studying drama at Waseda University in Tokyo, Murakami and his wife, Yoko, opened a coffee-and-jazz bar which they operated together for nearly a decade. Born in Kyoto Prefecture to parents who both taught Japanese literature, Haruki Murakami grew up in several cities on Japanese main island of Honshū. ![]()
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