Yoko Ogawa





Yoko Ogawa

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born
March 30, 1962 in Okayama, Japan

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Yoko Ogawa (alternate spelling Yôko Ogawa; Japanese: 小川 洋子) was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and lives in Ashiya with her husband and son. Since 1988, she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel The Professor and his Beloved Equation has been made into a movie. In 2006 she co-authored "An Introduction to the World's Most Elegant Mathematics" with Masahiko Fujiwara, a mathematician, as a dialogue on the extraordinary beauty of numbers.

A film in French, "L'Annulaire" (The Ringfinger), directed by Diane Bertrand, starring Olga Kurylenko and Marc Barbé, was released in France in June 2005 and subsequently made the rounds of the international film festivals; the film, so...more


Average rating: 3.82 · 6469 ratings · 1588 reviews · 29 distinct works
The Housekeeper and the Pro...
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The Diving Pool: Three Nove...
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Hotel Iris: A Novel
3.29 of 5 stars 329 avg rating — 561 ratings — published 1996 — 14 editions
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L'annulaire
4.0 of 5 stars 400 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions
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غرفة مثالية لرجل مريض
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3.44 of 5 stars 344 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2005
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Parfum de glace
3.43 of 5 stars 343 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions
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Le Musée Du Silence
3.8 of 5 stars 380 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions
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La Petite pièce hexagonale
3.84 of 5 stars 384 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
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La marche de Mina
3.57 of 5 stars 357 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
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Les Paupières
3.32 of 5 stars 332 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions
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“Still, being alone doesn't mean you have to be miserable. In that sense it's different from losing something. You've still got yourself, even if you lose everything else. You've got to have faith in yourself and not get down just because you're on your own.”
Yoko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

“Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to say or do. Numbers were also his way of reaching out to the world. They were safe, a source of comfort.”
Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor

“Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions.”
Yoko Ogawa

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