Haruki Murakami (January 12, 1949-) is a Japanese novelist and American literary translator.

Haruki Murakami's works have a high reputation in Japan and abroad.

His masterpieces mainly include Listen to the Wind, Norwegian Forest and Dance! Dance! Dance! "Kafka by the sea" and so on.

1. Listen to the wind. Published in 1979. Listen to the Wind "is the source and embryonic form of the language style, writing skills and post-modernism artistic atmosphere of Haruki Murakami's novels. It is a revolutionary change of the novel text that the writer completed from the idea of getting rid of the mediocrity and procrastination of Japanese novels and drawing lessons from the concise and lively style of modern American novels. It is an important embodiment of the spirit and literary value of contemporary Japanese novels.

2. Norwegian Forest. It is a long love novel written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami in 1987. The story tells that the protagonist is entangled between Naoko, who is emotionally unstable and mentally ill, and Kobayashi Midoriko, who is cheerful and lively, and begins a journey of self-growth. Since the book was published in Japan, it has sold more than 15 million copies in Japan by 212.

3. Dance! Dance! Dance! 》。 Its content is connected with another novel, The Adventure of Looking for Sheep. The novel reveals the distortion of people's mind caused by the irrationality of capitalist society and the spiritual loneliness and fragility of life in this society.

4. Kafka by the Sea. It continues Haruki Murakami's usual fictional story setting, but profoundly projects the shadow of the real society. By telling a wandering story of a 15-year-old boy, the course of how a soft and unformed soul pursues free growth is recorded.