The revered Japanese writer will be at the Guardian’s book club this Saturday at the Edinburgh international book festival – post your questions below and we’ll ask him a selection

Update: Haruki Murakami answered some of your questions and spoke about writing, heroes, domestic life, dreams and how his life informs his novels. Read his replies, and other highlights from his Guardian book club event, here.

Haruki Murakami is a hard man to track down: the author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84 rarely makes public appearances or gives interviews. But the popularity of the Japanese writer, who is revered by readers and critics alike, is as high as ever.

The only living writer who can sell a million copies in a month and still be in the running for the Nobel prize, Murakami has just had his latest novel published in English: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage created the sort of buzz that is usually reserved for Harry Potter, with hundreds of fans queuing up for a midnight launch in the UK – a scene repeated in other countries, including his native Japan a year ago.

So it is a coup for the Edinburgh international book festival to have secured him for two events, the first of which will be as a guest of the Guardian book club, the monthly discussion hosted by critic John Mullan. Murakami himself chose to focus on The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, the 1994 novel considered by many to be his masterpiece and the one which, when it appeared in English in 1997, established him as a major figure in world literature.

The conversation with Mullan will centre, of course, on that book. But there will also be a chance for you to participate remotely. We will reserve the last few minutes of the event for a few selected questions from you – and will bring you the answers on the Guardian Books site on Sunday morning (UK time).

What would you like to ask Murakami? Post your questions below the line and we will select a few to ask him at the event.

