村上春树(日语:村上 春樹/むらかみ はるき Haruki Murakami ?,1949年1月12日-),日本小说家、美国文学翻译家。热爱音乐。29岁开始写作,第一部作品《且听风吟》,即获得日本群像新人奖,1987年第五部长篇小说《挪威的森林》在日本畅销四百万册,广泛引起“村上现象”[1]。村上春树的作品写作风格深受欧美作家影响的轻盈基调,少有日本战后阴郁沉重的文字气息。被称作第一个纯正的“二战后时期作家”[2],并誉为日本1980年代的文学旗手。
Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹, Murakami Haruki, born January 12, 1949) is a Japanese writer. His books and stories have been bestsellers in Japan as well as internationally, with his work being translated into 50 languages[1] and selling millions of copies outside his native country.[2][3] His work has received numerous awards, including the World Fantasy Award, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, and the Jerusalem Prize.
Murakami's most notable works include A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95), Kafka on the Shore (2002), and 1Q84 (2009–10). He has also translated works by writers like Raymond Carver and J. D. Salinger into Japanese. His fiction, sometimes criticised by Japan's literary establishment as un-Japanese,[4][5] was influenced by Western writers from Chandler to Vonnegut by way of Brautigan. It is frequently surrealistic and melancholic or fatalistic, marked by a Kafkaesque rendition of the "recurrent themes of alienation and loneliness"[6] he weaves into his narratives. Steven Poole of The Guardian praised Murakami as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his works and achievements.[7]