January 12: Haruki Murakami was born (1949)

Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami, a Japanese writer, was born in 1949. Murakami novels are mostly postmodern. His novels include Hear the wind sing, Pinball 1973, A wild sheep chase, Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world, Norwegian wood, Dance dance dance, South of border, west of the sun, The wind-up bird chronicle, Kafka on the shore, After dark, and 1Q84. He was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize and Jerusalem Prize.