Haruki Murakami Follow

Contemporary Japanese writer Haruki Murakami is an author of novels, short stories, essays, and nonfiction. His works have been bestsellers in Japan and across the world. Influenced by American writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Chandler, and Richard Brautigan, Murakami's stories have often been described as surrealistic and melancholic, and they stand out from the Japanese literary establishment.