Jennifer Niven vs. Haruki Murakami

Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers

Jennifer Niven

Jennifer Niven

1968 – present

Literature
United States

Jennifer Niven is a New York Times and international best selling American author who is best known for the 2015 young adult book All the Bright Places.

#life
#death
#love
#happiness

"What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the g…"

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Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

1949 – present

Literature
Japan
Surrealism

Haruki Murakami is a Japanese novelist, short story writer, and translator known for blending surrealism, magical realism, and contemporary themes in works such as Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore, and 1Q84.

#life
#time

"Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli c…"

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Connections

Haruki Murakami was influenced by Jennifer Niven
Overlapped from 1968

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