Search for your favourite author or book

Birthday Stories

About the Author

Haruki Murakami is the author of many novels as well as short stories and non-fiction. His books include Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, The Strange Library  and Wind/Pinball.  His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and the most recent of his many international honours are the Jerusalem Prize and Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

Photograph © Elena Seibert

Others also viewed

Read the internationally bestselling book before you watch the major movie from Lionsgate, starring...
Two men may claim a crown. But only one can wear it . . . Winter 1461: Richard Duke of York'...
A claustrophobic novel - like a pot boiling over - Piglet charts the gap between how people see...
The second book in the 'Shadows & Crowns' series, with over 4.4M views on TikTok....