• Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子, Ogawa Yōko, born March 30, 1962) is a Japanese writer. Her work has won every major Japanese literary award, including the Akutagawa...
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  • The Memory Police (category Novels by Yōko Ogawa)
    "Quiet Crystallization") is a 1994 science fiction dystopian novel by Yōko Ogawa. The novel, dream-like and melancholy in tone in a manner influenced by...
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  • Mina's Matchbox (category Novels by Yōko Ogawa)
    Mina's Matchbox (ミーナの行進, Mi-na no Kōshin, "Mina's March") is a novel by Yōko Ogawa. It was originally serialized in Yomiuri Shimbun in 2005 before being...
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  • Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales (category Short story collections by Yōko Ogawa)
    Midara na tomurai) is a collection of interconnected short stories by Yōko Ogawa. It was published in Japan in 1998, and in the United States by Picador...
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  • is a novella collection by Japanese author Yōko Ogawa, first published in English in 2008. It was Ogawa's first book-length work to be translated. The...
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  • The Housekeeper and the Professor (category Novels by Yōko Ogawa)
    suushiki) (literally "The Professor's Beloved Equation") is a novel by Yōko Ogawa set in modern-day Japan. It was published in Japan in August 2003, by...
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  • volleyball player Toshio Ogawa (小川 敏夫, born 1948), Japanese politician Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子, born 1962), Japanese author Yoshimi Ogawa (小川 善美, born 1966), Japanese...
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    Kiyoshi Ogawa (Japanese: 小川 清 Ogawa Kiyoshi, October 23, 1922 – May 11, 1945) was a Japanese naval aviator ensign (少尉) of the Imperial Japanese Navy during...
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  • French film released on 8 June 2005. It was written (based on a novel by Yōko Ogawa) and directed by Diane Bertrand. Iris (Olga Kurylenko) is a young woman...
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  • Teacher (Root after age 19) Ruriko Asaoka as the widow Original story by: Yōko Ogawa (Published by Shinchosha) Directed by: Takashi Koizumi Written by: Takashi...
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  • Ogawa (born August 3, 1996) is an English and Japanese actress. Ogawa was born in central London to an English father and a Japanese mother. Ogawa moved...
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    1996) 1990 (104th) - Yōko Ogawa, Pregnancy Diary (In The Diving Pool, trans. Stephen Snyder, Picador, 2008) 1992 (108th) - Yoko Tawada, The Bridegroom...
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  • Iris Murdoch Something Special 1957 Joyce Carol Oates Black Water 1992 Yōko Ogawa The Housekeeper and the Professor 2003 Stewart O'Nan Last Night at the...
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  • 1993)[citation needed] Vurt (1993) by Jeff Noon The Memory Police (1994) by Yōko Ogawa The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (1994) by Neal Stephenson...
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    Suisei won the 66th Yomiuri Prize in 2015, with selection committee member Yōko Ogawa praising the book for expanding the horizon of literature. In 2016 Kawakami's...
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    States 179 novel, drama, poetry, short story, essays, literary criticism Yōko Ogawa 1962  Japan 31 novel, short story Ben Okri 1959  Nigeria 30 novel, short...
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  • writers, highlighting such voices as Chile's Roberto Bolaño and Japan's Yōko Ogawa. One story, "Cat Person", published in a December 2017 issue of The New...
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    for One Story, and is an editor-at-large for Catapult. She has named Yōko Ogawa, Edward P. Jones, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, and Amy Hempel as influences...
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  • Translator "Peaches" Akira Abe Jay Rubin "The Tale of the House of Physics" Yōko Ogawa Ted Goossen "Unforgettable People" Doppo Kunikida Jay Rubin "The 1963/1982...
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    Takizawa 1990: Noboru Tsujihara / Yōko Ogawa 1991: Yo Henmi and Anna Ogino / Eiko Matsumura 1992: Tomomi Fujiwara / Yoko Tawada 1993: Haruhiko Yoshimeki...
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  • Roman Porno series, directed by Yasuharu Hasebe and starring Asami Ogawa and Yōko Azusa. A policewoman is attacked, handcuffed and raped while on night...
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  • "killing game". In the 2003 novel The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa, the Professor suffers from anteretograde amnesia following a traffic...
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    James Hadfield of The Japan Times compared Oyamada's writing to that of Yōko Ogawa and said that her work "suggests good things to come from this promising...
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  • threads woven between each character and lauded the novel's ending poem. Yōko Ogawa stressed the cruelty of the mother character. Hisaki Matsuura was impressed...
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    numbers are featured in the novel The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa, and in the Japanese film based on it. Paul Auster's collection of short...
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  • Shirley Conran Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales, a 1998 short story collection by Yōko Ogawa Revenge (novel), or The Stars' Tennis Balls, a 2000 novel by Stephen Fry...
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    Haruki Murakami (writer), Yuriko Koike (House of Representatives member), Yōko Ogawa (writer), Tsumasaburō Bandō (kabuki actor), Morinosuke Kawaguchi (futurist)...
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  • Takagi, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Kazuya Fukuda, Teru Miyamoto From 21st to 24th: Yōko Ogawa, Hiromi Kawakami, Noboru Tsujihara, Keiichiro Hirano, Ko Machida Current...
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    Hughes Hurricane Season Temporada de huracanes Fitzcarraldo Editions Yōko Ogawa  Japan Stephen Snyder The Memory Police 密やかな結晶 Harvill Secker Longlist...
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    Haruki Murakami (b. 1949) Natsuo Kirino (b. 1951) Ryū Murakami (b. 1952) Yōko Ogawa (b. 1962) Banana Yoshimoto (b. 1964) Mieko Kawakami (b. 1976) Sayaka Murata...
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