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Haruki Murakami Mind Map - Coggle Diagram
Haruki Murakami Mind Map
Bio
Childhood
Grew up in Kobe, Ashiya, and Nishinomiya, Japan
Born in Kyoto, Japan in post-WWII world on January 12, 1949
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Grew up reading different American, European and Russian lit
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Career
Been awarded: Gunzo Prize for New Writers, World Fantasy Award, Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, Franz Kafka Prize, & Jerusalem Prize
been called a "black sheep in the Japaense Liteerary world", a "truly extraordinary writer", and "among the world's greatest living novelists"
Opened a small coffeehouse and jazz bar with his wife in Kokubunji, Tokyo, ran from 1974-1981
began writing when he was 29, while working the jazz bar
wrote his first story, Hear the Wind Sing, based off of his feelings of a baseball game
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Met his wife, Yoko, while at univeristy
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Writing Style
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writes in traditional Japanese values, such as familial importance
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many stories have elements or titles from popular songs, many of them classical
Important Works
Trilogy of the Rat
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comprised of Hear the Wind Sing, Pinball and A Wild Sheep Chase
Considers first two as not very well-written books, thinks of them as flimsy/childish
Norwegian Wood
part of the Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman collection
about students protesting order, like real Japanese students were in the 60s
Became extremely popular with the Japanese youth, though Murakami disliked the popularity
inspired by the Beatles song “Norwegian Wood (This Bird has Flown)”, and references are evident in the story
1Q84
Sold out on release day, and reached 1 mil copies sold within the first month
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Very well received in Japan, but mixed review from international readers
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Translators
Philip Gabriel
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Born 1953 in Fort Ord, CA
Has a Bachelors in Chinese and Masters in Japanese, eventually earned a PhD in Japanese at Cornell
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Jay Rubin
Born 1941 in Washington, D.C.
Mostly focuses on/is best known for translating Murakami’s works, also wrote a biographical analysis of his works
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wrote a novel about a Japanese mother and adopted American son in WWII, focusing on internment camps and such
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his translation of Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle won the 2003 Norma Award for translation of Japanese lit