Novelist Haruki Murakami

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Haruki Murakami

Living place: Kyoto

Birthday: 12-1-1949 (75 years old)

Global rank: #33868

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Who is Novelist Haruki Murakami?
A best-selling Japanese writer, he is known for works such as Kafka by the Sea, Norwegian Wood, and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. His work spans the genres of magical realism and surrealism.
His first novel, Listen to the Wind Sing, was made into a movie in 1981.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He studied drama at Waseda University. Before working full time as a writer, he opened a cafe and Tokyo jazz bar called Peter Cat.

Family life info

He was born in Kyoto, Japan. He met his future wife, Yoko, at Waseda University.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Novelist Haruki Murakami?
He translated the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald into Japanese.

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When was Novelist Haruki Murakami born?
Haruki Murakami birthday 12-1-1949 (at the age of 75).
Where is Novelist Haruki Murakami's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto, of Japan. is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Capricorn, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rat. Haruki Murakami's global rank is 33868 and whose rank is 182 in list of famous Novelist.
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Events in 1949 and 12-1

Events in the world in the birth year of Haruki Murakami

  • Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO (Apr. 4).
  • German Federal Republic (West Germany) established (Sept. 21).
  • Communist People's Republic of China formally proclaimed by Chairman Mao Zedong (Oct. 1).
  • South Africa institutionalizes apartheid.
  • Britain recognizes the independence of the Republic of Ireland. Northern Ireland remains a part of the United Kingdom.

Birthday Haruki Murakami (12-1) in history

  • Day 12-1 year 1773: The first public museum in the United States was established in Charleston, South Carolina
  • Day 12-1 year 1896: H. L. Smith took the first X-ray photograph. It was a hand with a bullet in it.
  • Day 12-1 year 1915: The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
  • Day 12-1 year 1932: Hattie W. Caraway, a democrat from Arkansas became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
  • Day 12-1 year 1964: One month after Zanzibar became independent, the ruling Zanzibar Nationalist Party was overthrown in a violent coup.
  • Day 12-1 year 1991: A divided Congress gave President Bush the go-ahead on the Persian Gulf War.
  • Day 12-1 year 1998: Nineteen European countries signed an agreement banning human cloning.
  • Day 12-1 year 2010: Haiti is dealt a catastrophic blow when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, the country's capital. It is the region's worst earthquake in 200 years. The number of fatalities were between 46,000 and 85,000 people.
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