Anna Ogino

Anna Ogino ( Japanese 荻 野 ア ン ナ , Ogino Anna ; born November 7, 1956 in Yokohama , Kanagawa Prefecture ) is a Japanese writer.

Ogino studied at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and completed a dissertation on French Renaissance literature François Rabelais in the Keiō University , where she is employed as an assistant.

After several nominations, Ogino received the Akutagawa Prize in 1991 for Seoi mizu . In the same year he wrote the novel Buruyūgeru tonda, inspired by the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brueghel . In the essay novel Watakushi no aidokusho (1991) Ogino dealt with the works of famous authors such as Akutagawa Ryūnosuke , Shiga Naoya , Kawabata Yasunari , Yokomitsu Riichi and Dazai Osamu . He was awarded the Itō-Sei Literature Prize in 1998. In 2001 Ogino received the Yomiuri Literature Prize for Horafuki-Anri no bōken .

Works (selection)

• 1989 Uchi no okan ga ocha o nomu ( 背負 い 水 )
• 1989 Doa o shimeruna ( ド ア を 閉 め る な )
• 1990 Supein no shiro ( ス ペ イ ン の 城 )
• 1990 Sabumisshon
• 1990 Yūkitai , short stories ( 遊 機体 )
• 1991 Seoi mizu ( 背負 い 水 )
• 1991 Buruyūgeru tonda ( ブ リ ュ ー ゲ ル 、 飛 ん だ )
• 1991 Watakushi no aidokusho ( 私 の 愛 毒 書 )
• 1992 Kojiki gaiden ( コ ジ キ 外 伝 水 )
• 2001 Horafuki-Anri no bōken ( ホ ラ 吹 き ア ン リ の 冒 険 )

source

• Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck, Marlene R. Edelstein: Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century: 104 Biographies, 1900-1993 . Museum Tusculanum Press, 1994, ISBN 87-7289-268-4 , p. 330–331 ( limited preview in Google Book search).