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Format: Symposium. Free and open to the public.

Location: UC Berkeley Alumni House [View Directions]

Panel:
“Crazed Translator Gives Japanese Author Excedrin Headache”
Jay Rubin – (Harvard Univ.) translator of Murakami’s Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, author of Murakami Haruki and the Music of Words

“Lost in Translation? Murakami Haruki and the Japanization of the English Language”
Rebecca Suter – (Univ. of Sydney) author of The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States

“A Spatial Odyssey or, It’s All Greek to Me: East Meets West in Murakami Haruki’s Kafka On the Shore”
Matthew Strecher – (Winona State Univ.) author of Dances with Sheep: The Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki and Haruki Murakami’s Wind-up Bird Chronicle: A Reader’s Guide

“Are There Any More Like You at Home? Cloning Murakami Haruki for the US Market”
Stephen Snyder – (Middlebury College) translator of novels by Natsuo Kirino, Kenzaburo Oe, and Ryu Murakami

Moderated by H. Mack Horton (UC Berkeley) and Alan Tansman (UC Berkeley)

Event details: http://ieas.berkeley.edu/events/2008.10.12.html

Location: Books Inc. in Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94102 [View Map]

The renowned Haruki Murakami will sign copies of his new memoir What I Talk About When I Talk About Running as well as his other titles purchased from any of our Books Inc. stores.

Source: Books Inc

Updated 10.09.2008: The time on Books Inc’s website (2pm) is incorrect. I called to confirm and the book signing is actually at 3pm.

Location: UC Berkeley, Zellerbach Hall A

Tickets: $16/$24/$30. Sold Out! You can try checking with the ticket office for availability, sign up for the waiting list, or buy a ticket off Craigslist.

Claiming a global readership and internationally recognized as Japan’s leading novelist, writer, and translator, Haruki Murakami is winner of the Yomiuri Prize for his critically acclaimed The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. The author’s numerous works, which have been translated into 36 languages, lead the reader along the interstices between the mundane and the sublime. Murakami’s reading and lecture in Japanese and English will be followed by a conversation with Roland Kelts (Tokyo University lecturer and author of Japanamerica) and a question and answer period with the audience. Presented in association with the Center for Japanese Studies.

Source: Cal Performances