His nonfiction work Underground chronicles interviews with victims of the Tokyo subway terrorist attack, while several short stories are collected in 
His nonfiction work Underground chronicles interviews with victims of the Tokyo subway terrorist attack, while several short stories are collected in The Elephant Vanishes. His novels The Sputnik Sweetheart, South of the Border, and West of the Sun, all display his trademark surrealism and whimsy. He won the Tanazaki Prize for his novel about a mental cryptographer with a civilization in his mind, The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. For 10 points - who is this groundbreaking Japanese novelist, the author of Norwegian Wood and A Wild Sheep Chase?
His nonfiction work Underground chronicles interviews with victims of the Tokyo subway terrorist attack, while several short stories are collected in The Elephant Vanishes.
Murakami Haruki