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Yōko Ogawa

Born

in Okayama, Japan

March 30, 1962

Genre

Contemporary, Fiction

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Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami, Mieko Kanai, Kenzaburō Ōe, Anne Frank ...more

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Yōko Ogawa (小川洋子) was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and lives in Ashiya. 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, some of which is filmed in the Hamburg docks, is based in part on Og ...more

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Yōko Ogawa’s books

Average rating: 3.83 · 302,747 ratings · 47,409 reviews · 141 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Memory Police 3.70 avg rating — 136,191 ratings — published 1994 — 92 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Housekeeper and the Professor 4.05 avg rating — 96,258 ratings — published 2005 — 123 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revenge by Yōko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder (Translator) 4.01 avg rating — 29,599 ratings — published 1998 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yōko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder (Translator) 3.67 avg rating — 9,350 ratings — published 1988 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mina's Matchbox by Yōko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder (Translator) 3.73 avg rating — 7,616 ratings — published 2006 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hotel Iris by Yōko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder (Translator) 3.33 avg rating — 8,174 ratings — published 1996 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'anulare by Yōko Ogawa, Cristiana Ceci (Translator) 3.45 avg rating — 2,921 ratings — published 1994 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	غرفة مثالية لرجل مريض by Yōko Ogawa, يوكو أوغاوا, بسام حجار (ترجمة) 3.28 avg rating — 1,604 ratings — published 1988 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parfum de glace by Yōko Ogawa, Rose-Marie Makino-Fayolle (Translator) 3.49 avg rating — 1,350 ratings — published 1998 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le Musée du silence by Yōko Ogawa, Rose-Marie Makino-Fayolle (Translator) 3.57 avg rating — 1,117 ratings — published 2000 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings

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Polls

November BoTM Side Read Nominations ~ 1st Poll

Top 5 books move onto the final round

The Lying Game

by Ruth Ware

14 votes, 24.1%

The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

by Jennifer Ryan

10 votes, 17.2%

Here and Gone

by Haylen Beck

8 votes, 13.8%

America's First Daughter

by Stephanie Dray

7 votes, 12.1%

My Name Is Lucy Barton

by Elizabeth Strout

6 votes, 10.3%

The One-in-a-Million Boy

by Monica Wood

5 votes, 8.6%

I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith

4 votes, 6.9%

If We Were Villains

by M.L. Rio

2 votes, 3.4%

The Housekeeper and the Professor

by Yōko Ogawa

1 vote, 1.7%

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

1 vote, 1.7%

58 total votes

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