Monday, March 30, 2015

Plural? Singular? Translation Problems with "Men Without Women"

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I have recently begun translating  Onna no inai otokotachi  (2014), and have been talking to other translators who have already finished it ...
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Friday, February 20, 2015

English Translation of New Murakami Story in this Week's New Yorker

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This week's New Yorker (February 23) published a translation of the story "Kino" from Murakami's newest anthology,  Onna...
Friday, January 16, 2015

Murakami Advice Page Opened Today

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As was reported by many sources around the world, the Haruki Murakami advice corner website, called "Murakami san no tokoro," open...
Monday, January 12, 2015

Haruki Murakami Will Respond to Readers Questions Online Starting on January 15

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Once again, for the third time - as far as I know - Haruki Murakami will be responding directly to readers’ questions on a webpage, this one...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Phil Gabriel's Translation of Murakami's Speech on the Meaning of Walls

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The Guardian has published a translation of Murakami Haruki's speech given at the Welt Prize award ceremony. Murakami talks about the ro...
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Monday, November 17, 2014

Haruki Murakami Studies Center Set Up in Taiwan

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On September 22 this year, a center for Haruki Murakami Studies  村上春樹研究センター was established at Tamkang University in Taiwan. In C...
Monday, November 10, 2014

Murakami Receives the Welt Literature Prize and Expresses Support for Hong Kong Protesters

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Haruki Murakami received the Welt Literature Prize on November 8 in Berlin. In his acceptance speech, which came on the eve of the 25th anni...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

New Reviews of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki in the American and French Press

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A long review of  Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki  appeared in the October 23 issue of the New York Review of Books.    Authored by writer and tran...
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Haruki Murakami Wins Welt's Literaturpreis for 2014

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It was announced on October 3 that Haruki Murakami will be the recipient of this year's Die Welt literary prize . The prize,  establ...

'Tis the Season to Bet on Nobel...

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Long-time readers of this blog will no doubt remember the stir created last year by rumors that Haruki Murakami might win the Nobel Prize in...
Friday, September 26, 2014

The Release Date of The Strange Library Is Approaching

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There is more and more being written about The Strange Library , as journalists eagerly expect its release in December. The Guardian offered...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Murakami's First Two Novels to be [Re]translated and [Re]published in Dutch and English

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Haruki Murakami's first two novels, 「 風の歌を聴け」 (Kaze no uta o like, 1979 ) and 「1973 年のピンボール」 (1973 nen no pinbōru , 1980) were first t...
Friday, September 12, 2014

An Array of New Translations of Tsukuru Tazaki

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Darina Zaicová, the editor of the Slovak edition of  Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki,  sent me her comments about the blog [thank you!] and sai...
Sunday, September 7, 2014

The Strange Story of the Strange Library

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Announcements have started popping up on the internet that a new book by Haruki Murakami,  The Strange Library,  is to appear in English on ...