Yōko Ogawa
Yōko Ogawa was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan on March 30th, 1962 and is the Japanese Writer. At the age of 62, Yōko Ogawa biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Since 1988, Ogawa has published more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction. Much of her work has yet to be translated into English. In 2006, she worked alongside the mathematician Masahiko Fujiwara to co-write "An Introduction to the World's Most Elegant Mathematics", a dialogue on the extraordinary beauty of numbers.
Her work has been published in the New Yorker, A Public Space and Zoetrope.[1]
The 2005 French film L'Annulaire (The Ringfinger) was based in part on Ogawa's Kusuriyubi no hyōhon. Her novel The Housekeeper and the Professor was adapted into the movie The Professor's Beloved Equation. In partnership with Amazon studios, Reed Morano and Charlie Kaufman are set to adapt The Memory Police.
- 1988 Kaien literary Prize (Benesse) for her debut The Breaking of the Butterfly (Agehacho ga kowareru toki, 揚羽蝶が壊れる時)
- 1990 Akutagawa Prize for Pregnancy Diary (Ninshin karendaa, 妊娠 カレンダー)
- 2004 Yomiuri Prize, Bookseller's Award for The Professor's Beloved Equation (Hakase no aishita sūshiki, 博士の愛した数式; translated as The Housekeeper and the Professor)
- 2004 Izumi Kyōka Prize for Burafuman no maisō, ブラフマンの埋葬
- 2006 Tanizaki Prize for Meena's March (Mīna no kōshin, ミーナの行進)
- 2008 Shirley Jackson Award for The Diving Pool
- 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist for Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales (Japanese; trans. Stephen Snyder)
- 2020 American Book Award for The Memory Police (Japanese; trans. Stephen Snyder)
- 2021 Medal with Purple Ribbon