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Haruki Murakami - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Translators
        
        Jay Rubin
        
        PHD In Japanese Literature
        
        “Murakami wrote the names and locations, but the English words are mine.”
        
        Communicates with Author to find meaning, especially since Japanese literature finds beauty in vagueness
        
        Phillip Gabriel
        
        Japanologist
        
        Professor at university of arizona
        
        Won awards from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission for the translation of Japanese Literature
        
        Talks about how the translator can take the role of editor
      - Murakami can write in English, but chose to write most of his works in Japanese
- - - - Opened a jazz bar
        
        Started Writing
        
        Works
        
        Fiction
        
        Novel: Hear the Wind Sing
        
        Won the Gunzou Literature Prize
        
        Nonficton
        
        Underground, a story about the the Hanshin earthquake
        
        3 Short story collections
        
        Styles
        
        First person narriative
        
        "Japanese I-novel"
        
        Casual, flowing style
        
        Eerie, suspenseful
        
        Magical Realism sometimes