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Haruki Murakami

むらかみ はるき

Murakami Haruki

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1949-01-12 （Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan）
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese
居住地歴
Ashiya, Hyōgo, Japan → Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan → Tokyo, Japan → Oiso, Kanagawa, Japan

経歴

職業
Novelist, Short story writer, Essayist, Translator
活動期間
1979年〜
影響を受けた人物
Raymond Chandler, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Brautigan, Franz Kafka
影響を与えた人物
Numerous contemporary international writers

学歴

Waseda University
Drama
学位: BA
期間: 1970s
卒業年: 1975
国: Japan
Studied drama at Waseda University. After graduation worked at a record store and ran a jazz bar.

受賞歴

Gunzo Prize for New Writers
1979
対象作品: Hear the Wind Sing
部門: 最優秀新人
主催: Gunzo (Magazine)
結果: 受賞
Noma Literary Prize (newcomer)
1982
対象作品: A Wild Sheep Chase
部門: 新人賞
主催: Noma Cultural Foundation
結果: 受賞
Tanizaki Prize
1985
対象作品: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
主催: Tanizaki Prize Committee
結果: 受賞
Yomiuri Prize for Literature
1995
対象作品: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
部門: 小説部門
主催: Yomiuri Shimbun
結果: 受賞
World Fantasy Award (Best Novel)
2006
対象作品: Kafka on the Shore
部門: Best Novel
主催: World Fantasy Convention
結果: 受賞
Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
2006
対象作品: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
部門: 短編傑作集
主催: Frank O'Connor Award Committee
結果: 受賞
Franz Kafka Prize
2006
主催: Franz Kafka Prize Committee
結果: 受賞
Jerusalem Prize
2009
主催: Jerusalem Prize Committee
結果: 受賞（授賞式出席・スピーチあり）
Princess of Asturias Award for Literature
2023
部門: 文学
主催: Princess of Asturias Foundation
結果: 受賞
Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award
2016
部門: 生涯貢献
主催: Hans Christian Andersen Award Committee
結果: 受賞
Premio Ignotus
2012
対象作品: 1Q84
主催: Spanish Association of Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror
結果: 受賞
America Award in Literature
2018
部門: 生涯業績
主催: America Award Committee
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Norwegian Wood

1987年 Coming-of-age / Literary fiction 296ページ

A nostalgic novel set in 1960s Tokyo about love, loss and coming-of-age as experienced by a young man and those around him.

losslonelinesscoming-of-age
映像化・舞台化
  • [Film] Norwegian Wood (film) / トラン・アン・ユン (Tran Anh Hung) (2010)
翻訳
  • English translation (Jay Rubin et al.)

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

1994年 Magical realism / Social novel 607ページ

A novel blending reality and fantasy in which the protagonist confronts memories, family history and the aftermath of wartime trauma.

memorywar and its impactintersection of reality and fantasy

Kafka on the Shore

2002年 Magical realism / Literary fiction 467ページ

A novel of intertwining, symbolic narratives in which mysterious events and motifs link two parallel storylines.

fateidentitysupernatural elements

1Q84

2009年 Novel / Magical realism 925ページ

A complex narrative exploring a parallel world (1Q84) in which characters' fates intersect amid subtle divergences from reality.

slippage of realityfreedom and solitudefate

Hear the Wind Sing

1979年 Coming-of-age / Early work 130ページ

Murakami's debut: a short, reflective story later regarded as part of the 'Trilogy of the Rat'.

youthfragments of everyday life
映像化・舞台化
  • [Film] Hear the Wind Sing (film) / 大森一樹 (Kazuki Ōmori) (1981)

全著作

  • 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 the Border, West of the Sun
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
  • Sputnik Sweetheart
  • Kafka on the Shore
  • After Dark
  • 1Q84
  • Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
  • Killing Commendatore
  • The City and Its Uncertain Walls

翻案

  • Norwegian Wood (film)
  • Drive My Car (film)
  • Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (animated film)

作家による翻訳

  • Works by F. Scott Fitzgerald (translated)
  • Works by Raymond Carver (translated)
  • Works by Truman Capote (translated)

作品の翻訳

  • Norwegian Wood (English translation: Jay Rubin et al.)
  • Kafka on the Shore (English translation)
  • 1Q84 (English translation)

作風・主題

文体
primarily first-person narrationplain, rhythmic prosecinematic imagery
頻出モチーフ
music (jazz and classical)wells / underground spacesloneliness and alienationparallel worlds / boundary between dream and reality

評価・遺産

Haruki Murakami is a highly popular contemporary writer whose distinctive blend of magical realism and everyday depiction has had international influence. His legacy includes extensive translations, film adaptations and scholarly attention.

記念館・博物館

  • Waseda International House of Literature (Haruki Murakami Library) Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan 2021年開館

関連学会

  • Murakami Haruki study groups and academic circles

資料所蔵先

  • Manuscripts and materials archived at Waseda University

大衆文化への影響

  • Numerous film, stage and animation adaptations; links with music projects

引用

  • Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. We must not allow the system to exploit us.
    出典: Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, 2009 (2009年)

豆知識

  • Ran a jazz bar called 'Peter Cat' in Tokyo in his twenties.
  • Took up running in his 30s and is an avid marathon and triathlon enthusiast.
  • His works have been translated into over 50 languages.