परिचय
जन्म : 12 जनवरी 1949, क्योटो, जापान
भाषा : जापानीविधाएँ : कहानी, उपन्यास, निबंधमुख्य कृतियाँ
Hear the Wind Sing, Pinball, A Wild Sheep Chase, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Norwegian Wood, Dance Dance Dance, South of the Border, West of the Sun, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Sputnik Sweetheart, Kafka on the Shore, After Dark, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
सम्मान
Gunzo Award (best first novel) for Hear the Wind Sing, Noma Literary Prize (best newcomer) for A Wild Sheep Chase, Tanizaki Prize for Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Yomiuri Prize (best novel) for The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kuwabara Takeo Prize for Underground, World Fantasy Award (best novel) for Kafka on the Shore, Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award for Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Jerusalem Prize (a biennial literary award given to writers whose work deals with themes of human freedom, society, politics, and government), Danish Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award, Welt-Literaturpreis