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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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The Place of Shells (2025)
Mai Ishizawa
"Missing persons and dogs, the dead and the living, are all on an even footing, interacting with equality. The multilayered intertwining of their memories saw me several times losing my perspective and growing dizzy, and the next thing I knew, I had been dragged into even deeper territory than I was expecting. This attempt to imprint upon humanity the experiences of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in a way that only a novel can achieve deserves to be highly esteemed."
Lady Joker 2 (2022)
(Lady Joker, book 2)
Kaoru Takamura
"A novel that portrays with devastating immensity how those on the dark fringes of society can be consumed by the darkness of their own hearts."
The Woman in the Purple Skirt (2021)
Natsuko Imamura
"Imamura definitely has a rare talent for depicting people who are a little out of the ordinary. . . . By the time I got to the end, a powerful sense of the narrator’s loneliness forcing its way through the madness gripped my heart."
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