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.

Murakami’s Newest Novel Deemed “Indecent” in Hong Kong

More on Visualizing Translation

Polish Cover for Volume One of Killing Commendatore Released

New Murakami Cover by Chip Kidd Released

Turkish Translation of Hear the Wind Sing Is Out

Serbian Translation of Killing Commendatore Came out on April 19

"Fruit Dropped to the Ground by a Squirrel": Myanmar Translator of Killing Commendatore on Translating Through English

English Translation of Killing Commendatore in October? Volume One in Danish already in May!

Chinese Translation of Killing Commendatore Took Only 85 Days, Says Lin Shaohua, the Translator

German Translation of Killing Commendatore out Today!

English Translation of Killing Commendatore to Come Out on September 18th

Visualizing Translation: Continued

Taiwanese Translation of Killing Commendatore Came out on December 12

Dutch Translation of Volume I of Killing Commendatore Came out on December 1st!

The Bakery Attack(s) comes out in Turkish

Visualizing Translation: Reflections on Translating Killing Commendatore

First European Translations of Killing Commendatore To Appear In a Few Months

Novelist as a Vocation out in Polish Next Week