21 Haruki Murakami: Becoming a Composed Adult (Probably)
There must be some corner in the world where someone can fully understand what we want to express, and Haruki Murakami is that person. On April 1, 1978, 29-year-old Haruki Murakami was watching a game of his beloved baseball team, the Yakult Swallows, at the Meiji Shrine. In the bottom of the first inning, American foreign player Dave Hilton hit a double to left-center field. At that moment, Murakami suddenly thought: "I think I can write a novel." After that, he wrote his first novel, "Hear the Wind Sing" (also translated as "Listen to the Wind's Song"), thus beginning his path as a novelist and eventually becoming an iconic figure in Japanese culture.
Original Chinese title & description
21 村上春树：做一个不动声色的大人（大概吧）
世上肯定有某个角落，存在着能完全领会我们想表达的意思的人，村上春树就是那一个。1978年4月1日，29岁的村上春树在明治神宫观看着自己心爱的棒球队养乐多燕子队的比赛；一局下半，来自美国的洋将戴夫·希尔顿（Dave Hilton）击出一支左中外野的二垒安打，那一刻，村上突发奇想：“我想我可以写小说。”在此之后，他写出了他的第一篇小说《且听风吟》（一译《听风的歌》），从此，开启了他的小说家之路，并一路成为日本文化的icon级人物。
Participation credit “本期参与者”：沙青青（微信公众号：13号埋立地）。
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