HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949. His works of fiction include
Dance Dance Dance, The Elephant Vanishes, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of
the World, A Wild Sheep Chase, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, South of the Border,
West of the Sun, and Sputnik Sweetheart. His first work of non-fiction,
Underground, is an examination of the Tokyo subway gas attack. He has
translated into Japanese the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, John
Irving, and Raymond Carver.
Dance Dance Dance, The Elephant Vanishes, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of
the World, A Wild Sheep Chase, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, South of the Border,
West of the Sun, and Sputnik Sweetheart. His first work of non-fiction,
Underground, is an examination of the Tokyo subway gas attack. He has
translated into Japanese the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, John
Irving, and Raymond Carver.