Translating Haruki Murakami

This blog is meant as an open forum where translators of Haruki Murakami can share ideas and discuss solutions to problems encountered in the process of translating his works. It was launched by two translators of Murakami into Norwegian and Polish, Ika Kaminka and Anna Zielinska-Elliott. Some of us have collaborated in the past, and many of us are in touch regularly by e-mail, but the publication of the new novel in 2013 served as a catalyst for the creation of an online translation blog.

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Florence in Finland...?

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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki summarized in a funny one-minute clip.  Anybody interested in making subtitles? http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

An amateur translator is posting his translation of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki in installments

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We have just come across a blog titled Lost/Found in Translation written by  苦栗鼠 (クリス / Chris), a Californian living in Gunma, Japan and tea...
Monday, June 10, 2013

About a colorful E-257 train appearing in Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki

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Blog called Through the Sapphire Sky   offers some reflections and interesting pictures of the E-257 express train and the 9/10 platform in ...

More on colors

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We wrote in April about different theories surrounding the meaning of colors in Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki .  Some people tried to guess what ...
Friday, June 7, 2013

You can simply listen to Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki instead of reading it... So far only in Japanese

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It seems that one of the fans has posted the whole "book on tape" (or  rather  -- "book on YouTube") online in chapter-l...

"Decoding Literature: The Mystery of Murakami" from France

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Le Décryptage Littérature: Le mystère Murakami , is a short French TV documentary about the Murakami phenomenon and his new book, featuring ...
Monday, June 3, 2013

Following in Tsukuru Tazaki's footsteps - continued

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A postscript to Kazuhito Kizuki's letter to Tsukuru Tazaki describing Kizuki's visit to the Lexus dealership in Nagoya. 多崎つくる様 追伸 ...

Following in Tsukuru Tazaki's footsteps around Nagoya

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Asahi shinbun publishes a letter to Tsukuru Tazaki written by Kazuhito Kizuki, a fellow Nagoya native. Kizuki decided to visit some of the l...
Friday, May 31, 2013

How to prepare for Haruki Murakami's new novel

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A blogger, Johnny Stategy has put together  a "collection of music and literature that are all referenced in the Japanese novel (“Shi...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Chiaki Ishihara on Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and endings of novels

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Chiaki Ishihara, a literature professor from Waseda University who encouraged us in May to "enjoy this Murakamifest a little longer...
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Our first comment from a translator who is working on the Dutch translation of the novel

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James Westerhoven is currently working on the Dutch translation of Colorless Tazaki Tsukuru .  Here are some thoughts he shared with us: ...
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Korean translation expected in July!

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Korean translation will once again be the first available on the market, the publisher, Minumsa announced yesterday having won the bidding w...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

More on the translation

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MAY 17, 2013 12:00 PM English translation of Haruki Murakami's 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage' announ...

AFP reports: "Translation out next year." (But when?)

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The eagerly-awaited English translation of Haruki Murakami's latest novel could hit bookstores next year, a Japanese newspaper has rep...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

Tsukuru Tazaki Bento

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This is a bento-box lunch made by a blogger who is a true "harukist" (that is what Murakami fans are called in Japanese).   App...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Really?

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When it comes to publishing Haruki Murakami in English, nothing is lost in translation May 15, 2013 By MARIKO NAKAMURA/ Staff Writer ...

NEWSWEEK: The Haruki the Japanese do not know

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特集:日本人が知らない村上春樹 2013年5月21日号(5/14発売) 世界を魅了し続けるハルキ・ムラカミ── その謎に包まれた人物像と文学の真価とは 作家  日本人が知らない村上春樹 ■講演録  作家が自ら語った魂の闇と心の傷 書評  心地...

Dokushojin (weekly magazine): Translator Yukiko Konosu and novelist Nakajima Kyoko discuss Tsukuru Tazaki: "Perfection and harmony"

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Another report of Murakami's public appearance

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Haruki Murakami: I live an ordinary life By KAE MORISHITA/ Shukan Asahi Weekly Magazine Reclusive novelist Haruki Murakami surprise...

HMV on another Liszt recording:

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村上春樹作品で話題の『巡礼の年』         Saturday, April 13th 2013  村上春樹作品に登場するリストの『巡礼の年』 村上春樹の新作 『色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年』 に何度も繰り返し登場して話題...
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