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Yoko Ogawa is a Japanese novelist, born in Okayama prefecture in 1962. She won one of the most important prize in 1988 with her debut novel, "Agehachou ga kowareru toki (When the swallowtail breaks)" and since then she became one of the leading novelist in Japan.
Awards: Jackson (2009) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction, Science Fiction
Novels
The Housekeeper and the Professor (2007)
aka The Gift of Numbers
Hotel Iris (2010)
The Memory Police (2019)
Mina's Matchbox (2024)
aka The Gift of Numbers
Hotel Iris (2010)
The Memory Police (2019)
Mina's Matchbox (2024)
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