Global best-selling Japanese author Haruki Murakami has been named the Cultural Personality of the Year for the 2025 Sheikh Zayed Book Award. Read More: Mena Massoud is Coming to the 2025 Abu ...

Born in Kyoto in 1949 to a literature professor, Haruki Murakami shaped his imagination through books and cats — both ...

And after a 10-second countdown, right at midnight, a large cloth covering is swept from a long wooden table to reveal shiny stacks of the new book ... in Murakami’s favor. The post Haruki ...

Although he was set to become one of the best-known Japanese ... He Wrote His First Book in English Upon leaving the baseball stadium, Haruki Murakami immediately went to a store to buy a pen ...

book-reading and other events to mark the opening of the Waseda International House of Literature known as the Haruki Murakami Library. In a captivating session where two of Japan’s most ...

Haruki Murakami has been named cultural personality of the year for the 2025 Sheikh Zayed Book Award. The acclaimed Japanese author, renowned for his bestselling novels such as Norwegian Wood and ...

Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC) announced the winners and Cultural Personality of the Year for ...