Haruki Murakami: A Brief History of Japanese Short Fiction, According to Me "To tell the truth, from my teens to my early twenties, I read hardly any Japanese fiction." By Haruki Murakami The following is from the introduction to The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories. From ...
Canadian short story writer Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature.Eighty-two-year-old Munro is only the 13th woman to win the 112-year-old prize.Munro didn’t publish her first collection of short stories until she was 37years old,but
Munro knew she was in the running-she was named the second-most likely person to win this year’s prize, after Haruki Murakami(村上春树)of Japan-but she never thought that she would win. Munro’s win also represents the long way Canadian writers have come.“When I began writing there wa...
Murakami Haruki is one of the most prominent contemporary Japanese authors, having achieved acclaim and popularity not only in Japan, but also abroad. This thesis presents translations of two short stories by Murakami, "Twins and the Sunken Continent" and "Lexington Ghosts", neither of which has...
“With the Beatles” by Haruki Murakami It’s not the first time the Beatles have played a role in Murakami’s writing, and he returns to the band in his latest short story, narrated by a man reflecting on falling in love as a high schooler. You can also hear from Murakami on “With...
Murakami, Haruki.Killing Commendatore, translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen (Knopf, October). [Japan] Mysor, Fernand.The Murdered City, translated from the French by Brian Stableford (Black Coat Press, October). [France] ...
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co-starring Donald Trump’s loyal squire JD Vanza. Cervantes lived in Spain during the same circa-1600 era that James Clavell’s Japan-set novelShogununfolded. Little-known fact: Spain and Japan are walking distance from each other despite being 6,600 miles apart. Admittedly, the walk would...
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