Dr. Haruki Murakami is a well-known contemporary writer and literary translator. Having millions of readers creating the “Murakami phenomenon” throughout the world, he has become an icon of the contemporary culture. In 1979, his fiction debut Hear The Wind Sing won the 23rd Gunzou Literature Prize for budding writers. In 1987, Norwegian Wood broke the silence of the Japanese literary world and became an overnight sensation, leading to the emergence of the “Murakami Phenomenon” and the “Norwegian Wood Phenomenon”. So far, Dr. Haruki Murakami has published 14 full-length novels, more than 80 short stories and over 40 collections of essays and other non-fiction works. His works have been published in more than fifty territories and languages. His representative full-length works include: A Wild Sheep Chase, Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, etc. His short story collections include: On a Slow Boat to China, After the Quake, First Person Singular, etc. At the same time, he has published more than 70 translated works, including The Complete Works of Raymond Carver (8 volumes), The Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby. etc.

Dr. Haruki Murakami has won more than 20 awards and honors for his outstanding literary achievements and cultural influence, including: the 21st Tanizaki Award (1985), the 47th the Yomiuri Prize for Literature (1995), the 2nd Kuwabara Takeo Prize (1999), the Franz Kafka Prize (2006), the World Fantasy Award (2006), Ireland's 2nd Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (2006), the Jerusalem Prize (2009), Spain’s Catalonia International Prize (2011), the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award (2016), the Order of Arts and Letters awarded by the French Ministry of Culture (2018), and France’s Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca (2022), etc. Among Haruki Murakami's works, many of them have been successfully adapted into films by famous directors, including Hear The Wind Sing, Tony Takitani, After the Quake, Norwegian Wood, Barn Burning, and Drive My Car, etc. These films have formed a unique Murakami style and generated far-reaching cultural influence. In particular, Drive My Car has won a number of international film awards including the 94th Academy Awards for the Best International Feature Film, the Golden Globe Award and awards from the Cannes Film Festival, etc.