Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki (2013)

Ruth Ozeki (born March 12, 1956 in New Haven, Connecticut ) is a Japanese-American author.

Life

Ruth Ozeki grew up as the daughter of Mayan researcher Floyd Lounsbury and a Japanese woman in New Haven. She studied English and Asian Studies at Smith College and, on a scholarship from the Japanese government, Japanese literature at Nara University in Nara . In Japan she worked and also worked as a language teacher at the Sangyō University of Kyoto . In 1985 she returned to New York City and worked as an art director in the film industry and for television.

Her film Body of Correspondence (1994) received an award at the San Francisco Film Festival and was shown by the PBS . Her film Halving the Bones (1995) has also been shown at various film festivals such as the Sundance Film Festival , the World Film Festival in Montreal and the Margaret Mead Film Festival .

She studied Zen Buddhism with Zoketsu Norman Fischer and received her ordination in 2010 .

She lives with Oliver Kellhammer in the countryside in British Columbia , for writing she seeks the creative tranquility of a place like Hedgebrook , a women's writing workshop on Whidbey Island in Washington State .

Works (selection)

• Beef . From the American. by Ursula Wulfekamp. Fretz and Wasmuth, Bern 1998, ISBN 3-502-11925-2 . ( My Year of Meats , 1998)
• All over creation . Picador, 2003, ISBN 0-330-49028-1 .
• A Tale for the Time Being . Novel. Canongate Books, 2013.
  • Story for a moment . Translated by Tobias Schnettler. S. Fischer, 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-055220-4 .

Film productions (selection)

• Body of Correspondence . 1994
• Halving the bones . 1995

literature

• Ekaterina Kozlova: Landscapes of Mobility in Aritha van Herk ’s "No Fixed Address" and Ruth Ozeki's "A Tale for the Time Being". Master's thesis at the Chair of Caroline Rosenthal , University of Jena

Web links

Commons : Ruth Ozeki  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ruth Ozeki in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Ruth Ozeki in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Ruth Ozeki Lounsbury in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ruth Ozeki , homepage
• Anita Sethi: This book is about the character creating a novelist. In: The Guardian . March 7, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hedgebrook ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2015 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. , website. 
2. ^ Anna Metcalfe: Small Talk: Ruth Ozeki. In: Financial Times . 22th of March 2013.