村上春树英文简介

Murakami Haruki
Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 but spent most of his youth in Kobe.His father was the son of a Buddhist priest; his mother was the daughter of an Osaka merchant.Both taught Japanese literature.
Since childhood,Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture,particularly Western music and literature.He grew up reading a range of works by American writers such as Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan,and he is often distinguished from other Japanese writers for his Western influences.
Murakami studied theater arts at Waseda University in Tokyo,where he met his wife,Yoko.His first job was in a record store,which is where one of his main characters,Toru Watanabe from Norwegian Wood,works.Shortly before finishing his studies,Murakami opened the jazz bar "Peter Cat" in Kokubunji,Tokyo,which he ran from 1974 until 1982.Many of his novels have musical themes and titles referring to classical music for example,the three books consisting The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle:The Thieving Magpie (after Rossini's orchestral overture),Bird as Prophet (after a piano piece by Robert Schumann),and The Bird-Catcher (a protagonist in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute).Some of his novels are named after songs:Dance,Dance,Dance (from The Steve Miller Band),Norwegian Wood (after the Beatles' song) and South of the Border,West of the Sun (the first part being the title of a song by Nat King Cole).