村上春樹（日語：村上 春樹／むらかみ はるき Haruki Murakami ?，1949年1月12日－），日本小說傢、美國文學翻譯傢。熱愛音樂。29歲開始寫作，第一部作品《且聽風吟》，即獲得日本群像新人奬，1987年第五部長篇小說《挪威的森林》在日本暢銷四百萬册，廣泛引起“村上現象”[1]。村上春樹的作品寫作風格深受歐美作傢影響的輕盈基調，少有日本戰後陰鬱沉重的文字氣息。被稱作第一個純正的“二戰後時期作傢”[2]，並譽為日本1980年代的文學旗手。

　　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]