Awards & Winners

Haruki Murakami

Date of Birth 12-January-1949
Place of Birth Fushimi-ku, Kyoto
(Kyoto Prefecture, Kansai region)
Nationality Japan
Also know as Murakami Haruki
Profession Author, Novelist, Screenwriter, Translator, Writer
Haruki Murakami is a best-selling Japanese writer. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered critical acclaim and numerous awards, both in Japan and internationally, including the World Fantasy Award and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, while his whole oeuvre garnered the Franz Kafka Prize and the Jerusalem Prize, among others. Murakami has also translated a number of English works into Japanese. His most notable works include A Wild Sheep Chase, Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, and 1Q84. Murakami's fiction, often criticized by Japan's literary establishment, is frequently surrealistic and nihilistic, marked by a Kafkaesque rendition of themes of loneliness and alienation. He is considered an important figure in postmodern literature. Steven Poole of The Guardian praised Murakami as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his works and achievements.

Awards by Haruki Murakami

Check all the awards nominated and won by Haruki Murakami.

2014


Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Neustadt International Prize for Literature

2010


Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Neustadt International Prize for Literature

2009


Jerusalem Prize
(Japanese language)

2008


Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Neustadt International Prize for Literature

2006


Franz Kafka Prize
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
Honored for : Kafka on the Shore

Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel Kafka on the Shore

2005


New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
Honored for : Kafka on the Shore

1999


Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

1995


Yomiuri Prize for Literature: Fiction
Honored for : The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

1985


Tanizaki Prize
Honored for : Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World