He is a Japanese writer and translator. Murakami has received several international literary prizes, including the Frank Kafka Prize for his novel Kafka on the Shore, and was ranked by the Guardian magazine as one of the world's most prominent living novelists. His books: - Novels, one of his most important novels, Hear the Sound of the Song of the Wind (1987) Pinbal, 1973 (1985) Kafka on the Shore (2002) 1Q84 - (2009) South of the Border, West of the Sun Beloved Sputnik Norwegian Forest Dance..dance..dance Short stories The Frog Saves Tokyo (1999)