About the Author Born in Kobe in 1949, Haruki Murakami studied Greek drama before managing a jazz bar in Tokyo from 1974 to 1981. His third novel, A Wild Sheep Chase, earned the Noma Literary Award for New Writers and ended his career at the jazz bar, and his next novel, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, won the prestigious Tanizaki Prize. In 1996, Murakami received the Yomiuri Literary Award for Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. He is also known as a skillful translator of Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, John Irving, Paul Theroux, and other American contemporary authors. Works Available in English Title Translator Publisher Year Pinball Alfred Birnbaum Kodansha 1985 Hear the Wind Sing Alfred Birnbaum Kodansha 1987 Norwegian Wood Alfred Birnbaum Kodansha 1989 A Wild Sheep Chase Alfred Birnbaum Kodansha 1992 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Alfred Birnbaum Vintage Books 1993 The Elephant Vanishes: Stories   Vintage Books 1994 Dance Dance Dance: A Novel Alfred Birnbaum Kodansha 1994 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Jay Rubin Knopf 1997 South of the Border, West of the Sun Philip Gabriel Knopf 1999 Short Stories Available in English Title Translator Source Year "On meeting my 100 percent woman one fine April Morning"   New Japanese Voices: The Best Contemporary Fiction from Japan 1991 "TV People" Alfred Birnbaum Monkey Brain Sushi: New Tastes in Japanese Fiction 1993 "The fall of the Roman Empire, The 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's invasion of Poland, and The realm of raging winds" Alfred Birnbaum The Magazine Mar 3, 1988 "Sleep"   The New Yorker Mar 30, 1992 "Barn burning" Philip Gabriel The New Yorker Nov 2, 1992 "Lederhosen"   Harper's Magazine Feb 1993 "The zoo attack"   The New Yorker Jul 31, 1995 "Another way to die" Jay Rubin The New Yorker Jan 20, 1997 Haruki Murakami books currently available Links Murakami Asahido Official site maintained by major newspaper Asahi Shinbun. Japanese.