Person: Haruki Murakami

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<p>Japanese author Haruki Murakami spent three years rewriting his novella. File picture: Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images</p>

culture

Book review: Brilliance that defies simple categorisation

'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' is a sheer delight to read: Puzzling, surprising and even at times hallucinatory, like a Hans Escher engraving

soccer

Tadhg Coakley: Getting the right result from Covid dreaming

general

Book review: 2084: The End of the World

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Book review: Absolutely On Music: Conversations With Seiji Ozawa

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Beginner’s Pluck: Helen Blackhurst

news

Dublin City Council announces longlist for International DUBLIN Literary Award

GAMETECH: Meet the new face of YouTube

HIS name was Felix Kjellberg, once. Just an everyday games enthusiast from Gothenburg. Unremarkable, unknown, unlikely. He was studying industrial economics at Chalmers University, before the change. Before PewDiePie was born. 

Wed, 28 Oct, 2015

Novel short story writer Carys Davies triumphs

THE Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award for 2015 has been awarded to Welsh writer Carys Davies for her second collection, The Redemption of Galen Pike.

Thu, 09 Jul, 2015

Seven madmen get author’s seal of approval in magical Argentina

IMAGINE Dostoevsky and Flann O’Brien had an adventure and you got to hear about it second-hand from Haruki Murakami. That is what it is like to read Roberto Arlt’s 1929 novel Los Siete Locos — or, as it is presented here, The Seven Madmen — a rollicking and prescient dive through the anxieties of an urban Argentina on the cusp of transformation.

Sat, 11 Apr, 2015

Booker winner gets the nod for ‘Bad Sex in Fiction’ award

The winner of the Man Booker Prize is nominated for a dubious honour in the literary world — the Bad Sex in Fiction Awards.

Fri, 14 Nov, 2014

Ogawa’s collection is a work of meta-fictional splendour

Generally regarded as one of Japan’s most important living writers, Yoko Ogawa has, over a 25-year career, produced a stellar body of work and won all of her country’s major literary honours.

Sat, 11 Oct, 2014

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Haruki Murakami

Sun, 14 Sep, 2014

Asian writer’s captivating tale of ecology and love

The Man with the Compound Eyes

Sat, 14 Dec, 2013

UCC to donate half the cost of short story award

University College Cork has thrown a lifeline to the world’s most lucrative award for a collection of short stories.

Mon, 26 Aug, 2013

Good, but not great

Haruki Murakami

Sat, 24 Aug, 2013

A melting pot of fiction from Kevin Barry

Kevin Barry’s book combines everything from Portugese architecture to Traveller cant, he tells Richard Fitzpatrick

Mon, 08 Jul, 2013

Irish writer scoops world’s most valuable literary prize

Limerick-born author Kevin Barry, whose novel City of Bohane scooped the world’s most valuable literary prize, said the importance of the Impac award was that it kept books at the centre of life in Ireland.

Fri, 07 Jun, 2013

Kevin Barry book shortlisted for €100k IMPAC award

An Irish novel is among the 10 shortlisted for the international IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Tue, 09 Apr, 2013

Kevin Barry shortlisted for €100k Impac Award

An Irish author has been shortlisted for the world’s richest literary prize.

Tue, 09 Apr, 2013

Opening book on €100,000 prize

DUBLIN’S €100,000 International IMPAC is the largest literary award for a single work of fiction in the English language.

Tue, 09 Apr, 2013

First Thoughts

Red Mist

Sat, 10 Dec, 2011

Guterson wins dreaded Bad Sex in Fiction literary award

AMERICAN author David Guterson has joined John Updike, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer and other literary stars as the recipient of the dreaded Bad Sex in Fiction award.

Thu, 08 Dec, 2011

Guterson wins dreaded Bad Sex in Fiction literary award

AMERICAN author David Guterson has joined John Updike, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer and other literary stars as the recipient of the dreaded Bad Sex in Fiction award.

Thu, 08 Dec, 2011

Deirdre Moynihan

What I do: I am a soprano and a traditional Irish musician.

Tue, 06 Dec, 2011

The Hot 100

ARTS

Sat, 17 Sep, 2011

High-profile entries for short story award

COMPETITION is intensifying for the world’s largest short story award.

Wed, 19 Apr, 2006