Haruki Murakami is Japan's best-selling author.

村上春树是日本的畅销书作家。

Each Murakami novel is different.

每篇村上的小说都是不同的。

Murakami quit smoking and started running.

村上戒了烟，并开始跑步。

Mr Murakami is an intriguing man; and so is his book.

村上春树先生和他的书同样地引起人们的兴趣。

I'd read Murakami novels before his autobigraphical piece.

我在读村上的自传以前读过他的小说。

By Haruki Murakami. This guy is such an imaginative writer.

作者村上春树，他是一位充满想象力的作家。

For those 11 hours, you disappear wholly into Murakami world.

在这11个小时里，你会沉侵在村上春树的世界中。

Murakami was a late bloomer, writing his first work at age 29.

村上春树大器晚成，29岁才写他的第一部作品。

Ryu Murakami is the author of “Popular Hits of the Showa Era.”

村上龙是《昭和歌谣大全》的作者。

Did Murakami resist or revise any parts of your translation?

村上春树否定或修改过你译文中的某个部分吗？

"Aaaaargh," says Murakami. "Marriage is where I took that gamble!"

村上春树说：“哎唷，我的婚姻就是我的赌注！”

Murakami shrugs. "I can leave my editor, but I can't leave my wife."

村上春树耸耸肩说，“我可以离开我的编辑，但是不能离开我的妻子。”

But Murakami takes the idea somewhere interesting when he then notes.

但是村上春树以一种非常有意思的方式表达了他的这一观点。

Murakami loves cats and USES them to create unique, mesmerizing imagery.

村上很喜欢猫，并用它们创造出独特的、令人着迷的场景。

His translator, Professor Jay Rubin, says reading Murakami changes your brain.

村上作品的英文译者杰鲁宾说村上改变其阅读者的思维方式。

Mr Fukui told parliament that by February he "had begun to have doubts" about Mr Murakami.

福井告知议会，他在2月开始对村上产生了怀疑。

I know I have to write it, because Murakami can make a difference in your startup life too.

我知道我该将它写下来，因为村上也可以使你的创业生涯有所不同。

Very different from most of the fiction you'll read, anything can happen in a Murakami book.

这部小说跟你平常看的小说完全不同，在春树的小说里，什么都能发生。

The author's note tells us that Mr. Murakami has written "some 40" novels over the last 35 years.

在作者注释中，村上先生告诉我们，在最近的35年里他写作了超过40多部小说。

In an interview after the ceremony Mr. Murakami, his bushy hair tied in a knot, seemed exuberant.

在仪式结束后村上隆接受采访，他的头发在脑后盘了一个辫，看起来很精神。

Curiously, Murakami translated the Catcher in the Rye into Japanese and found it good but incomplete.

巧的是村上曾把《麦田守望者》译成日文，并且认为该书很好但是不完整。

What I got from it is how writers, Murakami included, often tinker with and rework their stories.

这件事给我的启发就是，作家，包括村上春树在内，经常修改、修正他们的故事。

Haruki Murakami is among Japan's most prolific and highly acclaimed writers of fiction and nonfiction.

村上春树是日本最多产和最广受好评小说及散文家之一。

"For the first letter I found his address on the Internet, so I don't know if he got it," Murakami said.

村上说：“写第一封信时，我是在网上查到了他的地址，所以不知道他有没有收到。”

Haruki Murakami is quite possibly the most successful and influential cult author in the world today.

村上春树大概是当今世界最成功最有影响力的偶像作家。

I'm the only one of the three Murakami translators who's worked with the other two translators on projects.

我们三个翻译村上春树作品的人中，只有我和其他两个都在同一个项目中合作过。

Mr. Murakami said Japan, having experienced the trauma of radiation, should have turned away from nuclear power.

村上春树说，有过核辐射创伤的日本应远离核能。

What unites them, Mr. Murakami writes, is that “they’d all given up on committing positively to anything in life.”

是什么使他们聚集在一起？ 村上先生写道：“他们早已放弃了对生命中的任何事物抱持积极态度。”