Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami during his lifetime acquired the status of a classic not only of Japanese, but also of world literature. To this day, he does not know the exact answer to the question of how he decided to become a writer, claims that he initially believed in his own literary abilities. For Murakami, writing is as natural as breathing.

With regard to his personal biography, the writer, like a true Japanese, is reserved and evasive. Murakami was born on January 12, 1949 in Japan, near Kyoto, in the village of Kayako. The male part of the family was engaged in education in the field of Buddhism. My father taught Japanese language and literature at school. Grandfather - a Buddhist priest - served as the abbot in the temple. Haruka's childhood was spent in the port city of Kobe. At the same time, interest in American and European literature and music began.

In 1968, the name Murakami appeared on the lists of students at the prestigious Waseda University. Haruki chose to major in classical drama. Murakami did not feel much craving for reading old scripts and was frankly bored during his studies. Nevertheless, after graduating from the university, he successfully defended his degree in contemporary drama. As a student, he took part in protests against the Vietnam War.

In 1971, Haruki married Yoko Takahashi, with whom he attended school. Murakami turned his passion for jazz into business, opening the Peter Cat jazz bar in Tokyo in 1974. The institution has been successfully operating for 7 years. One day while sitting in a stadium watching a baseball game, Haruki suddenly realized that he could write books. Since then, Murakami has increasingly lingered at the bar after closing, busy with the first sketches of future works.

The first novel, Listen to the Song of the Wind, published in 1979, won the Gundzoshinjin-se Prize for Emerging Japanese Writers and the Noma Prize from the leading literary magazine Bungay. The book is known as the first part of The Rat Trilogy. Murakami himself, in relation to his first works, was of the opinion that he was weak and unworthy of the attention of foreign readers. With which the readers did not agree, noting the original style of the young writer.

In 1980, the continuation of the trilogy came out - the story "Pinball 1973". Two years later, the final part was published - a novel called "The Sheep Hunt". The work was also awarded the Noma Prize. This work began the formation of Haruki Murakami as a writer. At this time, Murakami decided to sell the bar and focus on literary work. Writing fees allowed him to travel around Europe and America.

Haruka returned to his homeland only in 1996. But even before leaving, he published four collections of stories ("A Slow Boat to China", "A Good Day for a Kangaroo," "Firefly, Burn the Barn and Other Stories," in the fantasy genre "Wonderland without brakes and the end of the world." The novel receives another prestigious literary award - the Junichiro Tanizaki Prize.

A trip to Greece and Italy prompted Murakami to write the novel "Norwegian Forest". The novel, which brought the writer worldwide fame, is called the best in Murakami's work by readers and critics. The publication sold two million copies and became a cult edition in Europe and the USA.

The main character tells about his student life in the 60s, when student protests were widening, rock and roll was gaining popularity, and he met with two girls at once. The novel is narrated in the first person, but the author argued that he was not autobiographical. It's just that such a presentation is convenient for him.

In 1988 Haruki moved to London. There the writer completed the last pages of the continuation of the Rat Trilogy - the novel Dance, Dance, Dance. In 1990, Japan published another collection of short stories "The Teletubbies' Retaliation". In 1991, Murakami accepted an offer to teach at Princeton University in the United States. Later he received an associate professor's degree. In Japan at that time, an eight-volume edition of the writer's works written over the past 10 years was released.

Living in America, Murakami had a desire to talk about his native country and its inhabitants, which he did not like to do before. As Haruki admitted in an interview, only after leaving his homeland, from afar, you can truly appreciate it. In 1992, Haruki Murakami moved to California, where he lectured on contemporary literature at Howard Taft University. At that time in the writer's homeland, the novel South of the Border, West of the Sun arrived in time for publication. The hero of the story, like the author in his youth, is the owner of a jazz bar.

In 1994, the mystical novel The Clockwork Bird Chronicles was published in Tokyo, combining different forms and considered the most difficult in Murakami's work. A year later, a sequel to the novel was released. 1995 in Japan will be remembered for the Kobe earthquake and the gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo radicals. In 1996, the writer returned to Japan and settled in its capital. Under the impression of the tragic events, Murakami wrote documentaries "Underground" and "The Promised Land".

In 1999, the publication of the novel "My Beloved Sputnik" took place, a year later - the collection of stories "All God's Children Can Dance". In 2001, the Murakami family settled on the coast, in the village of Oiso, where they still live.

Murakami's works have been translated into 20 languages, including Russian. In 2002, "Wonderland without Brakes" was published in Russia, in 2003 the writer himself visited the country. At the same time in Japan he published the tenth two-volume novel "Kafka on the Beach". The novel won the World Fantasy Prize (WFA).

Murakami publishes a book almost every year. In 2005, a collection of stories "Tokyo Legends" was published. It includes both new stories and those written back in the eighties. In 2007, a kind of memoir was published under the title "What am I talking about when I talk about running." In 2010, the book was translated into Russian.

2009 marked the publication of the new trilogy "1Q84". The first two parts of the book sold out on the first day of sales. In the work, Murakami touched upon the themes of religious extremism, the discrepancy between the views of different generations, the combination of reality and illusion. The third volume of the essay, published in 2010, also became a bestseller.

With some interruption, in 2013 the philosophical drama "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of wanderings" was released. This is a novel about the life of a lonely railway station design engineer. As a child, Tsukuru had friends. But over time, for unknown reasons, friends turned their backs on him. And only a new girlfriend convinces Tsukuru to find friends and find out the reasons for the breakup. The bestseller has traditionally received enthusiastic responses from fans of modern literature, once again broke the sales record, this time at the Amazon site.

In 2014, a collection of short stories "Men without women" was published. The main characters of the novels are strange men and femme fatale, and the main theme is the relationship between them, losses and gains. Haruki Murakami translates works of European authors into his native language. Thanks to him, the Japanese met Raymond Carver, Truman Capote, John Irving, Ursula Le Guin. Murakami's translation of Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye broke records for sales of translated literature in Japan at the beginning of the 21st century.

Haruki Murakami has been married to one woman for over 40 years. The wife of the writer Yoko Takahashi is a singer and actress. There are no children in the family. At 33, Murakami gave up smoking, became interested in swimming, baseball, long runs (participates in marathons). He realized his interest and love for Western culture in several photo albums and travel guides.

Murakami is known to be a big music lover. The writer published the book "Jazz Portraits" in two volumes. The essays are literary illustrations for the exhibition of musicians' paintings by film director and screenwriter Makoto Wada. In his books, Murakami spoke about 55 of his favorite jazz performers. And his own collection of records, according to unverified information, includes more than 40 thousand copies.

In 2016, the Japanese writer and translator was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Literary Prize with the wording "For a daring combination of classic storytelling, pop culture, Japanese tradition, fantastic realism and philosophical reflection." Murakami was expected to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. But in the end, the award went to the American singer Bob Dylan.

The prophecies regarding the writer also did not come true in 2017 - another Japanese, the writer Kazuo Ishiguro, received the award. In February 2017, another novel by Haruki Murakami was published - "The Assassination of the Commander", the initial circulation was 1 million copies. The book traditionally caused a stir among the writer's fans.

1979 - "Listen to the Song of the Wind" 1982 - "Sheep Hunt" 1985 - "Wonderland without Brakes and the End of the World" 1986 - "Re-raid on the Bakery" 1987 - "Norwegian Forest" 1992 - "South of the Border, West of Suns "1996 -" The Ghosts of Lexington "2000 -" All God's Children Can Dance "2002 -" Kafka on the Beach "2005 -" Tokyo Legends "2009 -" 1Q84 (Thousand Neves Eighty Four) "2013 -" Colorless Tskuru Tazaki and its Years wanderings "2014 -" Men without women "2017 -" The murder of the commander "

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Haruki Murakami Net Worth 2022

Haruki Murakami 's revenue is $1.4M in 2022. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Haruki Murakami and could vary in the range between $503.7K - $1M.

Year	Estimation
December 2022	$76.1K - $149.1K
November 2022	$ 66.3K - $ 84.1K
October 2022	$ 42.7K - $ 156.8K
September 2022	$67.2K - $120.8K
August 2022	$60K - $86.6K
July 2022	$59.3K - $130.7K
June 2022	$83.3K - $118.7K
May 2022	$72.5K - $158.9K
April 2022	$72.2K - $97.7K
March 2022	$65.9K - $126.7K
February 2022	$62.5K - $108.4K
January 2022	$70.5K - $121.3K

 

Haruki Murakami Net Worth 2021

Haruki Murakami 's revenue is $1.6M in 2021. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Haruki Murakami and could vary in the range between $936.6K - $1.7M.

Year	Estimation
December 2021	$60.5K - $99.8K
November 2021	$64.3K - $127K
October 2021	$83.3K - $115.2K
September 2021	$72.4K - $123.7K
August 2021	$43.6K - $158K
July 2021	$49.6K - $165.4K
June 2021	$73.6K - $131.6K
May 2021	$65.3K - $152.6K
April 2021	$75.7K - $124.2K
March 2021	$58.1K - $129.7K
February 2021	$53.8K - $97.6K
January 2021	$55.3K - $159.2K

 

Haruki Murakami Net Worth 2020

Haruki Murakami 's revenue is $1M in 2020. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Haruki Murakami and could vary in the range between $565.8K - $1.3M.

Year	Estimation
December 2020	$57.5K - $104.1K
November 2020	$47.4K - $158.3K
October 2020	$48.8K - $107.8K
September 2020	$67.3K - $125.9K
August 2020	$64.4K - $132.4K
July 2020	$44.9K - $146.3K
June 2020	$43.1K - $98.3K
May 2020	$65.1K - $122.8K
April 2020	$67.1K - $134.9K
March 2020	$61.8K - $151.7K
February 2020	$57.6K - $157.1K
January 2020	$58.2K - $134.7K

 

Haruki Murakami Net Worth 2019

Haruki Murakami 's revenue is $1.1M in 2019. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Haruki Murakami and could vary in the range between $657.4K - $1.5M.

Year	Estimation
December 2019	$73.4K - $146.3K
November 2019	$79.5K - $120.8K
October 2019	$73.4K - $85.6K
September 2019	$68.1K - $103.1K
August 2019	$69.8K - $128.2K
July 2019	$42K - $152.1K
June 2019	$60.9K - $109.9K
May 2019	$42.8K - $93.8K
April 2019	$52.5K - $127.4K
March 2019	$65K - $142.2K
February 2019	$72.1K - $85K
January 2019	$49.8K - $134.5K

 

Haruki Murakami Net Worth 2018

Haruki Murakami 's revenue is $1.8M in 2018. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Haruki Murakami and could vary in the range between $508K - $1.1M.

Year	Estimation
December 2018	$64.3K - $151.4K
November 2018	$64.9K - $95.8K
October 2018	$46.3K - $155K
September 2018	$66.9K - $100.5K
August 2018	$48.9K - $100.9K
July 2018	$57.6K - $91.2K
June 2018	$75.5K - $83.7K
May 2018	$82.7K - $163.7K
April 2018	$47.9K - $115.5K
March 2018	$76K - $165.2K
February 2018	$65.3K - $151.5K
January 2018	$41.8K - $122.2K

 

Haruki Murakami Net Worth 2017

Haruki Murakami 's revenue is $1.9M in 2017. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Haruki Murakami and could vary in the range between $996.2K - $2M.

Year	Estimation
December 2017	$41.9K - $164.4K
November 2017	$80.6K - $119.5K
October 2017	$70.8K - $131K
September 2017	$75.5K - $106.7K
August 2017	$44.9K - $118.4K
July 2017	$52.6K - $155.4K
June 2017	$79.5K - $122.3K
May 2017	$62.8K - $90.3K
April 2017	$81.7K - $113.8K
March 2017	$52.4K - $91.3K
February 2017	$64.9K - $113.9K
January 2017	$44.6K - $146.8K

 

Haruki Murakami Net Worth 2016

Haruki Murakami 's revenue is $1.6M in 2016. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Haruki Murakami and could vary in the range between $840.3K - $1.8M.

Year	Estimation
December 2016	$64.6K - $156.8K
November 2016	$51.3K - $155.5K
October 2016	$66.1K - $164K
September 2016	$47.1K - $123.4K
August 2016	$68.9K - $125.7K
July 2016	$80.7K - $121.5K
June 2016	$56.8K - $126.1K
May 2016	$69.5K - $90.8K
April 2016	$52.8K - $116.1K
March 2016	$79.9K - $92.6K
February 2016	$61.5K - $156.9K
January 2016	$60.2K - $136K

 

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