Yōko Ogawa

Yōko Ogawa ( Japanese 小川 洋子 , Ogawa Yōko ; born March 30, 1962 in Okayama , Okayama Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese writer .

Life

Ogawa studied at Waseda University in Tokyo . Inspired by classical Japanese literature, the works of Kenzaburō Ōe and the diary of Anne Frank , she began her career as an author in 1986. Her debut work, the story Agehachō ga kowareru toki , earned her the Kaien Prize in 1988.

In 1991 she won the renowned Akutagawa Prize for the novella Ninshin Calendar ("Pregnancy Calendar ") . For the novel Hakase no aishita sūshiki , which was made into a film in 2006 under the direction of Takashi Koizumis , she was awarded the 2004 Yomiuri Literature Prize; Mīna no kōshin brought her the Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Prize in 2006 . 2005 her novel was The ring finger of Diane Bertrand filmed.

In 2020, The Memory Police , the English translation of Ogawa's novel Hisoyaka na kesshō (密 や か な 結晶) by Stephen Snyder, which was published in 1994, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize .

Ogawa's work, which consists of over ten novels and numerous short stories, has been translated into Chinese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Greek, Catalan, Spanish, and English. Her work is published in German by Liebeskind Verlag in Munich , the paperback editions are licensed for Aufbau-Verlag .

Ogawa lives with her family in Hyogo Prefecture .

Awards

• 1988: Kaien Preis for her debut The Broken Butterfly. Stories ( 揚 羽 蝶 が 壊 れ る 時 , Agehachō ga kowareru toki )
• 1990: Akutagawa Prize for Ninshin Calendar ( 妊娠 カ レ ン ダ ー , Ninshin karendā )
• 2004: Yomiuri Prize and Grand Prix of Booksellers for The Secret of Euler's Formula ( 博士 の 愛 し た 数 式 , Hakase no aishita sūshiki )
• 2004: Izumi Kyōka Literature Prize for Burafuman no maisō ( ブ ラ フ マ ン の 埋葬 )
• 2006: Tanizaki Prize for Mīna no kōshin ( ミ ー ナ の 行進 )
• 2008: Shirley Jackson Award for "The Diving Pool"

Works

• 1989 Agehachō ga kowareru toki ( 揚 羽 蝶 が 壊 れ る 時 ), short stories
  • The broken butterfly . From the Japanese by Ursula Gräfe and Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler, Liebeskind Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-935890-47-2
• 1989 Daibingu pūru ( ダ イ ヴ ィ ン グ ・ プ ー ル ), short stories
  • Swimming pool in the rain . From the Japanese by Ursula Gräfe and Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler, Liebeskind Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-935890-13-3 .
• 1991 Ninshin Calendar ( 妊娠 カ レ ン ダ ー )
• 1991 Yohaku no ai ( 余 白 の 愛 ). novel
  • Love on the edge of the paper . From the Japanese by Ursula Gräfe and Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler, Liebeskind Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-935890-25-7 .
• 1994 Kusuriyubi no hyōhon ( 薬 指 の 標本 ), novel
  • The ring finger . From the Japanese by Ursula Gräfe and Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler, Liebeskind Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-935890-07-9 .
• 1996 Yasashii uttae ( や さ し い 訴 え ), novel
  • Tender complaints . From the Japanese by Sabine Mangold , Liebeskind Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-95438-073-2 .
• 1996 Hoteru airisu ( ホ テ ル ・ ア イ リ ス ), novel
  • Hotel Iris . From the Japanese by Ursula Gräfe and Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler, Liebeskind Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-935-89000-1 .
• 1998 Kamokuna-shigai, midarana tomurai ( 寡 黙 な 死 骸 み だ ら な 弔 い ), novel
  • The end of the Bengal tiger . From the Japanese by Sabine Mangold, Liebeskind Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-935890-75-5 .
• 2000 Chinmoku hakubutsukan ( 沈 黙 博物館 ), novel
  • The museum of silence . From the Japanese by Ursula Gräfe and Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler, Liebeskind Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-935890-31-1 .
• 2003 Hakase no aishita sūshiki ( 博士 の 愛 し た 数 式 ), novel
  • The secret of Euler's formula . From the Japanese by Sabine Mangold, Liebeskind Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-935890-88-5 .
• 2004 Burafuman no maisō ( ブ ラ フ マ ン の 埋葬 ), novel
• 2006 Mīna no kōshin ( ミ ー ナ の 行進 ), novel
• 2009 Neko o daite zō to oyogu ( 猫 を 抱 い て 象 と 泳 ぐ ), novel
  • Swimming with elephants . From the Japanese by Sabine Mangold, Liebeskind Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-95438-013-8
• 2012 Kotori ( こ と り ), novel
  • The lord of the little birds . From the Japanese by Sabine Mangold, Liebeskind Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-95438-050-3
• 2015 Kohaku no matataki ( 琥珀 の ま た た き ), novel
  • Moments in amber . From the Japanese by Sabine Mangold, Liebeskind Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-95438-100-5 .

literature

• "Ogawa Yôko". In: Yomitai! New literature from Japan. , Berlin: EB-Verlag (= series on Japanese literature and culture, Vol. 3), pp. 335–340, 2011.
• Lisette Gebhardt : "Lifestyle and Psychodesign in Japanese 'Moratorium Literature' - Kawakami Hiromi and Ogawa Yôko". In: Research on contemporary Japanese literature, booklet series of Japanologie Frankfurt , 2009.

Web links

• Yōko Ogawa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Short biography and reviews of works by Yōko Ogawa at perlentaucher.de
• Ninshin Calendar translated by Stephen Snyder in The New Yorker (English)
• "The pug as a psychopomp. Early Fantastic by Yoko Ogawa ” , review on literaturkritik.net by Lisette Gebhardt , March 28, 2017
• “The chess dwarf in the moratorium. Yôko Ogawa once again sends bizarre figures through their eccentric manege in Swimming with Elephants ” , review on literaturkritik.net by Lisette Gebhardt , February 12, 2014
• “A thousand dead tomatoes and the child in the fridge. The Japanese author Yôko Ogawa invites you to another of her literary torture museums with the episodic novel The End of the Bengal Tiger “ , review on literaturkritik.net by Lisette Gebhardt , April 21, 2011
• "Ruth Geiersberger meets Yōko Ogawa: 'Lost in being a stranger - A self-experiment in Japan'" , Bayerisches Feuilleton series , Bavaria 2 , July 18, 2015 (article, audio and picture gallery)
• Detailed portrait of Yôko Ogawa in the newsletter of the Japanese Consulate General, Düsseldorf (PDF).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Casa'del'libro.com: Biographical information ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) 
2. ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur : “Vollkommener Lesegenuss” , December 17, 2007
3. ↑ DLF : “Desire and Cruelty” , February 5, 2008