Haruki

Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer. His books and stories have been bestsellers in Japan as well as internationally, with his work being translated into 50 languages and selling millions of copies outside his native country. The critical acclaim for his fiction and non-fiction has led to numerous awards, in Japan and internationally, including the World Fantasy Award (2006) and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (2006). His oeuvre received, for example, the Franz Kafka Prize (2006) and the Jerusalem Prize (2009).

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Murakami's most notable works include A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95), Kafka on the Shore (2002), and 1Q84 (2009–10). He has also translated into Japanese English works by writers ranging from Raymond Carver to J. D. Salinger. His fiction, still criticized by Japan's literary establishment as un-Japanese, was influenced by Western writers from Chandler to Vonnegut by way of Brautigan. It is frequently surrealistic and melancholic or fatalistic, marked by a Kafkaesque rendition of the "recurrent themes of alienation and loneliness"he weaves into his narratives. He is also considered an important figure in postmodern literature. Steven Poole of The Guardian praised Murakami as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his works and achievements.

Haruki Muramatsu is a Japanese darts player.

Haruki Seto is a former Japanese football player.

Haruki Ihara was a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player. He played for the Nishitetsu Lions, and continued his entire career with them.

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From 2002 to 2003, he was the manager of the Seibu Lions, as well as the Orix BlueWave in 2004.

Haruki Nishikawa is a Japanese professional baseball player. He was born on April 16, 1992. He debuted in 2012. He stole 22 bases in 2013. Nishikawa hit a walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 5 of the 2016 Japan Series.

Haruki Uemura is a former judoka from Japan, who won the gold medal in the Open Class at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. In the final of the Olympic tournament in Canada he defeated Great Britain's Keith Remfry. In 2009 he was elected President of Kodokan and he was awarded the rank of 9th dan.

Haruki Nakamura is an American football player.

A famous bearer is author Haruki Murakami.