Much like the unpredictability of her narrative styles, Ogawa’s body of work is incredibly diverse, and is scattered across a range of genres. Since then, Ogawa has published more than fifty works of fiction and non-fiction, won the Akutagawa Award (a major Japanese literary award), and has had her works translated into several different languages. A few years later, she published ‘The Breaking of the Butterfly’ ( Agehacho ga kowareru toki) in 1988, for which she won the Kaien Literary Prize (Benesse). During her time as a student at Waseda University (Tokyo), Ogawa was introduced to the works of prolific writers such as Kanai Mieko, Ōe Kenzaburō, Haruki Murakami, Paul Aster, and Shibata Moroyuki. Today, on Yōko Ogawa’s 59th birthday, we’re celebrating the life and works of one of World Literature’s most celebrated authors (and of course, sharing some book recommendations we know you’ll love!) Early Life and Literary Inspirations:īorn in Okayama in 1962, Yōko Ogawa is said to have displayed a penchant for finding beauty in the banal at an early age, though she had not considered a career as a full-time writer until she attended University. Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子, Ogawa Yōko) is a world-renowned novelist, essayist, and one of the leading figures in modern Japanese literature.
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