The Beatles have regularly provided the titles for works by Murakami. Spot the song he has yet to use
Norwegian Wood
Drive My Car
Yesterday
Helter Skelter
Murakami's novels are much influenced by US writers, and he has translated many of them into Japanese. Which of these authors has he NOT translated?
F Scott Fitzgerald
Don DeLillo
Raymond Chandler
Truman Capote
Midnight bookshop openings heralded the arrival in English of his latest novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. But do you know who translated it?
Philip Gabriel
Jay Rubin
John Mullan
David Mitchell
Hear the Wind Sing, Pinball, 1973, and A Wild Sheep Chase form a trilogy: what is it called?
Trilogy of the Cat
Trilogy of the Bat
Trilogy of the Rat
Trilogy of the Fat
Murakami's non-fiction book Underground was about which traumatic event?
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings
The sarin gas attack by Aum Shinrikyo
The Sino-Japanese war of 1937-1945
The Boshin war of 1868-1869
As well as writing, which of these jobs has Murakami done?
Drilled wells for the Tokyo water authority
Written computer programs
Run a jazz club
Drummed for cult band the Boredoms
One of contemporary literature's more athletic practitioners, Murakami has completed long-distance runs of up to what distance?
13 miles, 192.5 yards
26 miles, 385 yards
50km
100km
Who directed the film version of Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood?
Tran Anh Hung
Ang Lee
Beat Takeshi
Richard Curtis
Short story collection The Elephant Vanishes was adapted into which medium?
A play by Theatre de Complicité
A ballet by Matthew Bourne
A film by Akira Kurosawa
A concept album by David Bowie
Which one of these subjects is not among Murakami's own list of his obsessions?
Elephants
Penguins
The refrigerator
The ironing
Solutions
1:D, 2:B, 3:A, 4:C, 5:B, 6:C, 7:D, 8:A, 9:A, 10:B
Scores
3 and above.
Very poor. Your years of pilgrimage do not seem to have included many visits to the library
5 and above.
Not bad, but no occasion to Dance, Dance, Dance
8 and above.
Brilliant. A 1Q a long way above 84