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I'll second Hamsun. I read Hunger years ago and liked it quite a bit, then last year I read The Growth of the Soil and was absolutely floored--it's easily in my top ten now. If you read and like Murakami, I'd recommend Italo Calvino. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller is my favorite of his and another personal top ten, but you might want to start with something more accessible like The Baron in the Trees, to get a feel for him. I haven't kept up with Jeanette Winterson's work in the last ten years, but she put out some great stuff in the '90s--The Passion and Written on the Body are great, and I liked GUT Symmetries quite a bit, but a lot of people found it ponderous and overly ambitious.
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