Japanese author Haruki Murakami is at No. 9 on the list of odds for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
It has been more than 15 years since Haruki Murakami won the Franz Kafka Prize in 2006 for his masterpiece, Kafka on the Shore. The award was widely regarded as a wind vane for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was known as the "Prelude to the Nobel Prize in Literature". Winning the award meant that Haruki Murakami already had half a foot in the Nobel Prize for Literature.
So a large number of readers hoped that Murakami would win the Nobel Prize. But it didn't work out that way, despite the fact that Murakami's works "And Listen to the Wind," "Norwegian Wood" and "Dance! Dance! Dance! Kafka by the Sea" and so on are loved by many people, among them, the long story "Norwegian Wood" also broke the silence of the Japanese literary world.
Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami, born on January 12, 1949 in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto City, Japan, a contemporary Japanese writer. 1975, graduated from the first faculty of literature of Waseda University, majoring in drama.
In 1979, he won the 23rd Gunshin Newcomer Literary Award for his debut novel And Listen to the Wind, and in 1980, he published his full-length novel Pinball 1973, which was shortlisted for the 83rd Akutagawa Prize, and in 1982, his full-length novel Adventures in Searching for a Sheep was published in a single volume, and he was honored with the 4th Nomadic Newcomer Award for Literature and Art.