The story
A jazz-club owner became a global novelist by mixing loneliness, music, surrealism, and desire.
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Haruki Murakami
global literary fiction · Tokyo, Japan
Why Haruki Murakami matters
Murakami proved literary strangeness can still sell at scale.
Featured work
Norwegian Wood
Moved Murakami from cult writer to mass literary figure.
Major works
Kafka on the Shore
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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