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Article: `Gatsby' the gold standard for Japanese author Haruki Murakami.
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- Yomiuri Shimbun
- Article date:
- December 20, 2006
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Byline: Tadashi Yamauchi
TOKYO, Dec. 16 _ Haruki Murakami has described F. Scott Fitzgerald's ``The Great Gatsby'' as "the most important novel in my life" and one that he wished "to translate when I reach 60."
The 57-year-old novelist, who was awarded the Franz Kafka International Literary Prize in October, has actually accomplished his mission ahead of schedule, having recently published his own translation of the novel.
No other contemporary Japanese novelist has translated as many books as Murakami. His list of translations includes books by John Irving, Truman Capote, Tim O'Brien and J.D. Salinger as well as the complete works of Raymond ...