40 years with Murakami Haruki

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Notes

Notes

1 Heard when Murakami was interviewed on stage at the small literary festival, Verdens literatur på Møn (World literature on Møn island) in Denmark, 28-29 August, 2010.

2 ‘Revisiting the Murakami Myth of Origin’, talk at Newcastle University on 7 March 2017, given by David Karashima as part of the ‘Eyes on Murakami’ event series.

3 https://research.ncl.ac.uk/murakami/

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Funding

This work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council under its Leadership Fellowship Scheme [project reference: AH/P005322/1].

Notes on contributors

Gitte Marianne Hansen

Gitte Marianne Hansen is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at Newcastle University and an AHRC Leadership Fellow and Principal Investigator for the project ‘Gendering Murakami Haruki: Characters, Transmedial Productions and Contemporary Japan’. She holds a PhD in Japanese Studies from the University of Cambridge. She may be contacted at [email protected]

Michael Tsang

Michael Tsang is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow based at Newcastle University. Previously he worked on the AHRC-funded “Gendering Murakami Haruki” project as Research Associate. He holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies from the University of Warwick. His research interest lies in world literature with an East Asian focus. He may be contacted at [email protected]