The years are long, but they are worth waiting for. The characters who originally thought they were amazing will disappear, and the life which was originally thought to be mediocre will also shine. You don't have to be born brave or talented, you just need to be diligent and sincere.

Haruki Murakami, born on January 12, 1949 in Fushimi District, Kyoto, Japan, is a contemporary Japanese writer.

In 1975, he graduated from Waseda University’s First Faculty of Literature, majoring in drama. In 1979, he won the 23rd Group Portrait New Humanities Literature Award for his debut novel "Hear the Wind Sing". In 1980, he published the novel "Pinball in 1973", which was later shortlisted for the 83rd Akutagawa Prize. In 1982, the novel "Sheep Hunting Adventure" was published as a single volume and won the 4th Noma Newcomer Award for Literature and Art.

In 1985, he won the 21st Junichiro Tanizaki Award for his novel "The End of the World and Grim Wonderland". In 1987, he published the novel "Norwegian Wood", which sold more than 10 million copies by 2009. The book broke the silence in the Japanese literary world and gave rise to the so-called "Haruki Murakami Phenomenon".

In 1991, he published the novel "Dance!" dance! dance! 》. In 1996, he won the 47th Yomiuri Literature Prize for his novel "The Journey of Strange Birds". In 1999, he won the 2nd Kuwahara Takeo Literary Award for his documentary "At the Promised Place: Underground 2". In 2002, he published the novel "Kafka on the Shore".

In 2006, he won the Franz Kafka Award established by the Czech Republic; in the same year, he won Ireland's 2nd Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award for his short story "Blind Willow and Sleeping Beauty". In 2007, he won the 1st Waseda University Tsubouchi Literary Award; in the same year, he released the short story collection "Tokyo Tales Collection".

In 2009, he won the Jerusalem Literature Prize; in the same year, the first and second parts of "1Q84" were published, with a circulation of 2 million copies. In 2010, the third "1Q84" was released. In 2011, he won the Catalonia International Award in Spain.

In 2013, the novel "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Year of Pilgrimage" was published. In 2015, he won the Andersen Literary Award. In 2017, the novel "Assassination of the Knight Commander" was released.