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In 1978, Haruki Murakami Was Twenty-Nine And Running A Jazz Bar In Downtown Tokyo. One April Day, The Impulse To Write A Novel Came To Him Suddenly While Watching A Baseball Game. That First Novel, Hear The Wind Sing, Won A New Writers' Award And Was Published The Following Year. More Followed, Including A Wild Sheep Chase And Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World, But It Was Norwegian Wood, Published In 1987, That Turned Murakami From A Writer Into A Phenomenon. In Works Such As The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running And Men Without Women, Murakami'S Distinctive Blend Of The Mysterious And The Everyday, Of Melancholy And Humour, Continues To Enchant Readers, Ensuring His Place As One Of The World'S Most Acclaimed And Well-Loved Writers. Jay Rubin (B. 1941) Is An American Academic, Translator, And (As Of 2015) Novelist. He Is Best Known For His Translations Of The Works Of The Japanese Novelist Haruki Murakami. He Has Written About Murakami, The Novelist Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), The Short Story Writers Kunikida Doppo (1871-1908) And Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927), Prewar Japanese Literary Censorship, Noh Drama, And Japanese Grammar. In May 2015 Chin Music Press Published His Novel The Sun Gods, Set In Seattle Against The Background Of The Incarceration Of 120,000 U.S. Citizens And Non-Citizens Of Japanese Ancestry During World War Ii. Rubin Has A Ph.D. In Japanese Literature From The University Of Chicago. He Taught At The University Of Washington For Eighteen Years, And Then Moved To Harvard University, From Which He Retired In 2006. He Lives Near Seattle, Where He Continues To Write And Translate. Haruki Murakami Was Born In Kyoto In 1949 And Now Lives Near Tokyo. His Work Has Been Translated Into More Than Fifty Languages, And The Most Recent Of His Many International Honors Is The Jerusalem Prize, Whose Previous Recipients Include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, And V. S. Naipaul. Haruki Murakami Is A World Famous Japanese Novelist. His Many Evocative And Poignant Works Are Focused Around The Themes Of Alienation, Surrealism And Nihilism And Most Are Worldwide Bestsellers. He Has Won The World Fantasy Award, The International Short Story Award, The Franz Kafka Prize And The Jerusalem Prize, Amongst Several Others. An Important Figure In Postmodern Literature, Some Of His Classics Include The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Kafka On The Shore. That First Novel, Hear The Wind Sing , Won A New Writers' Award And Was Published The Following Year. More Followed, Including A Wild Sheep Chase And Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World , But It Was Norwegian Wood , Published In 1987, That Turned Murakami From A Writer Into A Phenomenon. In Works Such As The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle , 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running And Men Without Women , Murakami'S Distinctive Blend Of The Mysterious And The Everyday, Of Melancholy And Humour, Continues To Enchant Readers, Ensuring His Place As One Of The World'S Most Acclaimed And Well-Loved Writers.