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While studying at the Musashino College of Art in Tokyo, he submitted Almost Transparent Blue in a competition for new writers conducted by the literary monthly Gunzō. Published as a book, the novel won the Akutagawa prize for 1976. Besides continuing with his writing, Murakami has had a weekly disc-jockey and TV interview program, and has directed several of his own movies.
His novel Coin-Locker Babies is due out from Kodansha International in 1995.
First published in Japanese as Kagirinaku tōmei ni chikai burù by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo, 1976.
Distributed in the United States by Kodansha America, Inc., 114 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10011. Published by Kodansha International Ltd., 17-14 Otowa 1-chome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112, and Kodansha America, Inc. Copyright © 1977 by Kodansha International Ltd. All rights reserved. Printed in Japan.
LCC 80-85383 ISBN 0-87011-469-7 ISBN 4-7700-0957-7 (in Japan) First edition, 1977 First paperback edition, 1981 98 99 17 16 15 It wasn't the sound of an airplane.
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