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Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami è uno scrittore, traduttore e saggista giapponese. È stato tradotto in circa cinquanta lingue e i suoi best-seller hanno venduto milioni di copie. I suoi lavori di narrativa si sono guadagnati l'acclamazione della critica e numerosi premi, sia in Giappone che a livello internazionale, come il World Fantasy Award, il Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, il Premio Franz Kafka e il Jerusalem Prize.

BIOGRAFIA

Immagine JPEG (.jpg) Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949. He grew up in Kobe and then moved to Tokyo, where he attended Waseda University. After college, Murakami opened a small jazz bar, which he and his wife ran for seven years.

His first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won the Gunzou Literature Prize for budding writers in 1979. He followed this success with two sequels, Pinball, 1973 and A Wild Sheep Chase, which all together form “The Trilogy of the Rat.”

Murakami is also the author of the novels Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World; Norwegian Wood; Dance Dance Dance; South of the Border, West of the Sun; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Sputnik Sweetheart; Kafka on the Shore; After Dark; 1Q84; and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. He has written three short story collections: The Elephant Vanishes; After the Quake; and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman; and an illustrated novella, The Strange Library.

Additionally, Murakami has written several works of nonfiction. After the Hanshin earthquake and the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack in 1995, he interviewed surviving victims, as well as members of the religious cult responsible. From these interviews, he published two nonfiction books in Japan, which were selectively combined to form Underground. He also wrote a series of personal essays on running, entitled What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.

The most recent of his many international literary honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V. S. Naipaul. Murakami’s work has been translated into more than fifty languages.

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Romanzi[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

(I primi due romanzi sono usciti in Italia nel 2016 con il nome "Vento e Flipper", per Einaudi)

Ascolta la canzone del vento (風の歌を聴け, 1979) Il flipper del '73 (1973年のピンボール, 1980) Nel segno della pecora (羊をめぐる冒険 Hitsuji o meguru bōken, 1982) Longanesi, 1982; Einaudi, 2010 La fine del mondo e il paese delle meraviglie (世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド Sekai no owari to Hādo-boirudo Wandārando, 1985), Baldini & Castoldi 2002 Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイの森 Noruwei no mori, 1987) Dance Dance Dance (ダンス・ダンス・ダンス Dansu dansu dansu, 1988), Einaudi 1998 A sud del confine, a ovest del sole (国境の南、太陽の西 Kokkyō no minami, taiyō no nishi, 1992), Feltrinelli 2000; Einaudi 2013 L'uccello che girava le viti del mondo (ねじまき鳥クロニクル Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru, 1994-1995), Baldini & Castoldi 1999 La ragazza dello Sputnik (スプートニクの恋人 Supūtoniku no koibito, 1999), Einaudi 2001 Kafka sulla spiaggia, Einaudi 2008 (海辺のカフカ Umibe no Kafuka, 2002) After Dark (アフターダーク Afutā dāku, 2004) 1Q84 (いちきゅうはちよん Ichi-kyū-hachi-yon, 2009), Einaudi 2011 (1 e 2), Einaudi 2012 (3) L'incolore Tazaki Tsukuru e i suoi anni di pellegrinaggio (色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年 Shikisai o motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to, kare no junrei no toshi, 2013), Einaudi 2014 Sonno (con Menschik Kat), Einaudi 2014 (ISBN 978-88-06-22364-9) La strana biblioteca (Fushigina toshokan, 2005), Einaudi 2015 (ISBN 978-88-06-22588-9) Vento & Flipper (raccolta comprendente i romanzi di esordio Ascolta la canzone del vento - 風の歌を聴け, 1979 - e Il flipper del '73 - 1973年のピンボール, 1980 -), Einaudi 2016 (ISBN 9788806227982) Gli assalti alle panetterie, Einaudi 2016

Raccolte di racconti[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

L'elefante scomparso e altri racconti (象の消滅 Zō no shōmetsu, 1993) Tutti i figli di Dio danzano (神の子どもたちはみな踊る Kami no kodomo-tachi wa mina odoru, 2000) I salici ciechi e la donna addormentata (めくらやなぎと眠る女 Mekurayanagi, to nemuru onna, 2006) Uomini senza donne (女のいない男たち Onna no inai otokotachi, 2014), Einaudi 2015 (ISBN 978-88-06-22587-2) ===Saggi===[modifica | modifica wikitesto] • Uten Enten (雨天炎天, 1990) • Pōtoreito in jazu (ポ－トレイト・イン・ジャズ, 1997) • Underground (アンダーグラウンド (村上春樹), 1997) • Pōtoreito in jazu 2 (ポ－トレイト・イン・ジャズ 2, 2001) • Ritratti in jazz (raccolta di Pōtoreito in jazu e Pōtoreito in jazu 2, 2013) • L'arte di correre (走ることについて語るときに僕の語ること, 2007) • Imi ga nakereba suingu wa nai (意味がなければスイングはない, 2008) • Il mestiere dello scrittore (職業としての小説家, 2015), Einaudi 2017 (ISBN 9788806232146)

Traduzioni[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

• Courtlandt Bryan: The Great Dethriffe (1970). • Truman Capote: A Christmas Memory (1956), One Christmas (1982), Colazione da Tiffany (1958), I Remember Grandpa, Children on Their Birthdays (1940). • Raymond Carver: Tutte le opere di Carver. • Raymond Chandler: Addio, mia amata (1940), Il lungo addio (1953). • Bill Crow: Jazz Anecdotes, From Birdland to Broadway. • Terry Farish: The Cat Who Liked Potato Soup. • Francis Scott Fitzgerald: "La mia città perduta" (1922), Il grande Gatsby (1925). • Jim Fusilli: The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. • Mikal Gilmore: Shot in the Heart. • Mark Helprin: Swan Lake (1989). • John Irving: Setting Free the Bears (1968). • Ursula K. Le Guin: Gattivolanti (1988), Il ritorno dei gattivolanti (1989), Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings, Jane on her Own. • Tim O'Brien: The Nuclear Age (1985), The Things They Carried (1990), July, July (2002). • Grace Paley: Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, The Little Disturbances of Man. • J. D. Salinger: Il giovane Holden (1951). • Mark Strand: Mr. and Mrs. Baby and Other Stories (1985). • Paul Theroux: World's End and Other Stories (1980). • Chris Van Allsburg: Polar Express (1985), The Wretched Stone (1991), The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (1984), Ben's Dream, Two Bad Ants (1988), The Sweetest Fig (1993), The Window's Broom, The Stranger (1986), The Wreck of the Zephyer, The Garden of Abdul Gasazi (1979).

Collegamenti esterni[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

• (EN) Haruki Murakami Sito Ufficiale, http://www.harukimurakami.com/

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