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Biography
Ryū Murakami is a Japanese novelist, essayist and filmmaker. His novels explore human nature through themes of disillusion, drug use, surrealism, murder and war, set against the dark backdrop of Japan. His best known novels are Almost Transparent Blue, Audition, Coin Locker Babies, and In the Miso Soup.
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Awards & recognition
- Mainichi art award · 2011
- Noma Literary Prize · 2005
- Tanizaki Prize · 2000
- Yomiuri Prize · 1997
- Hirabayashi Taiko Prize · 1996
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- Noma Literary New Face Prize · 1981
- Akutagawa Prize · 1976
- Gunzou Prize — New Writers · 1976
