question: Which writer won the Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet or Haruki Murakami?
answer: David Alan Mamet
context: Title: After the Quake
  Passage: After the Quake (神の子どもたちはみな踊る , Kami no Kodomo-tachi wa Mina Odoru , lit.  "The children of the gods all dance") is a collection of 6 short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, written between 1999 and 2000.  First published in Japan in 2000, it was released in English as after the quake in 2002 (translator Jay Rubin notes that Murakami "insisted" the title "should be all lower-case").
  Title: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
  Passage: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル , Nejimakitori Kuronikuru ) is a novel published in 1994–1995 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.  The American translation and its British adaptation, dubbed the "only official translations" (English) are by Jay Rubin and were first published in 1997.  For this novel, Murakami received the Yomiuri Literary Award, which was awarded to him by one of his harshest former critics, Kenzaburō Ōe.
  Title: Underground (Murakami book)
  Passage: Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (アンダーグラウンド , Andāguraundo , 1997–1998) is a book by Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami about the 1995 Aum Shinrikyo sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.  The book is made up of a series of interviews with individuals who were affected by the attacks, and the English translation also includes interviews with members of Aum, the religious cult responsible for the attacks.  Murakami hoped that through these interviews, he could capture a side of the attacks which the sensationalist Japanese media had ignored—the way it had affected average citizens.  The interviews were conducted over nearly a year, starting in January 1996 and ending in December of that same year.
  Title: Pinball, 1973
  Passage: Pinball, 1973 (1973年のピンボール , Sen-Kyūhyaku-Nanajū-San-Nen no Pinbōru ) is a novel published in 1980 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.  The second book in the "Trilogy of the Rat" series, it is preceded by "Hear the Wind Sing" (1979) and followed by "A Wild Sheep Chase" (1982), and is the second novel written by Murakami.
  Title: Birthday Girl (short story)
  Passage: "Birthday Girl" (バースデイ・ガール ) is a short story written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, and first published in 2002.  Murakami was putting together "Birthday Stories" (2002 in Japanese, 2004 in English), his anthology of short stories on the theme of birthdays, and wrote this story especially for it.  A translation was also published in the July 2003 issue of "Harper's Magazine", and collected into Murakami's own compilation "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman" (2006 in English, 2009 in Japanese).
  Title: Haruki Murakami
  Passage: Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹 , Murakami Haruki , born January 12, 1949) is a Japanese writer.  His books and stories have been bestsellers in Japan as well as internationally, with his work being translated into 50 languages and selling millions of copies outside his native country.  The critical acclaim for his fiction and non-fiction has led to numerous awards, in Japan and internationally, including the World Fantasy Award (2006) and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (2006).  His oeuvre received, for example, the Franz Kafka Prize (2006) and the Jerusalem Prize (2009).
  Title: Jay Rubin
  Passage: Jay Rubin (born 1941) is an American academic and translator.  He is most notable for being one of the main translators into English of the works of the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami.  He has also written a guide to Japanese, "Making Sense of Japanese" (original title "Gone Fishin<nowiki>'</nowiki>"), and a biographical literary analysis of Murakami.
  Title: David Mamet
  Passage: David Alan Mamet ( ; born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director.  As a playwright, Mamet has won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1984) and "Speed-the-Plow" (1988).  Mamet first gained acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway plays in 1976, "The Duck Variations," "Sexual Perversity in Chicago," and "American Buffalo."  His play "Race" opened on Broadway on December 6, 2009, and his play "The Penitent" previewed off-Broadway on February 8, 2017.
  Title: Dance Dance Dance (novel)
  Passage: Dance Dance Dance (ダンス・ダンス・ダンス , Dansu Dansu Dansu ) is the sixth novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami.  First published in 1988, it was translated into English by Alfred Birnbaum in 1994.  The book is a sequel to Murakami's novel "A Wild Sheep Chase".  In 2001, Murakami said that writing "Dance Dance Dance" had been a healing act after his unexpected fame following the publication of "Norwegian Wood" and that, because of this, he had enjoyed writing "Dance" more than any other.
  Title: The Elephant Vanishes
  Passage: The Elephant Vanishes (象の消滅 , Zō no shōmetsu ) is a collection of 17 short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.  The stories were written between 1980 and 1991, and published in Japan in various magazines, then collections.  The contents of this compilation were selected by Gary Fisketjon (Murakami's editor at Knopf) and first published in English translation in 1993 (its Japanese counterpart was released later in 2005).  Several of the stories had already appeared (often with alternate translations) in the magazines "The New Yorker", "Playboy", and "The Magazine (Mobil Corp.)" before this compilation was published.
citations: Haruki Murakami David Mamet