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Murakami se noemenswaardige werke sluit in ''A Wild Sheep Chase'' (1982), ''Norwegian Wood (roman)'' (1987), ''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'' (1994–95), ''Kafka on the Shore'' (2002), en ''1Q84'' (2009–10). Hy het ook werke van onder andere Raymond Carver en [[J. D. Salinger]] in Japannees vertaal.
Sy fiksie, wat somtyds gekritiseer is deur die [[Japannese literatuur|Japannese literêre establishment]] as on-Japannees,<ref name=Guardian2014-09-13>{{cite news |first=Steven |last=Poole |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/13/haruki-murakami-interview-colorless-tsukur-tazaki-and-his-years-of-pilgrimage |title=Haruki Murakami: 'I'm an outcast of the Japanese literary world' |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=13 September 13, 2014 |location=London |quote=Murakami doesn't read many of his Japanese contemporaries. Does he feel detached from his home scene? "It's a touchy topic", he says, chuckling. "I'm a kind of outcast of the Japanese literary world. I have my own readers ... But critics, writers, many of them don't like me." Why is that? "I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind of an ugly duckling. Always the duckling, never the swan."}}</ref><ref name=kelts /> wasis beïnvloed deur Westerse skrywers; van <ref>!--CARVER, SALINGER, KAFKA are already cited above and below, so we add three other main ones here:--></ref> [[Raymond Chandler]] tot [[Kurt Vonnegut]] ; by wyse vanen [[Richard Brautigan]].
Sy werk is dikwels van 'n [[Surrealisme|surrealisties]]e en melancholiese of [[fatalisme|fatalisties]]e aard, en gemerkword deur 'n [[Franz Kafka|Kafkaesk]]iese weergawe van die "herhalende temas van sosiale vervreemding en eensaamheid" gekenmerk<ref name=Endelstein2008-10-15>Endelstein, Wendy, [http://berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/10/15_murakami.shtml What Haruki Murakami talks about when he talks about writing], ''UC Berkeley News'', October 15, Oktober 2008, accessedbesoek Augustop 12, Augustus 2014.</ref> wat hy vervleg in sy verhaallynediskoerse. Steven Poole van ''[[The Guardian]]'' het Murakami geprys as "van die wêreld se grootste lewende romansiers" vir sy werk en prestasies.<ref name="Poole, Steve">{{cite news|author=Poole, Steven|url=https://www.theguardian.com/Archive/Article/0,4273,4022565,00.html |title=Tunnel vision|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=May 27, Mei 2000|accessdate=24 April 24, 2009 | location=LondonLonden}}</ref>
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