Yoko Ogawa

Yōko Ogawa is a renowned Japanese writer born in 1962, known for her exploration of memory, loss, and human psychology. She has won every major Japanese literary award, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Prize, and internationally received the Shirley Jackson Award and the American Book Award. Her novel The Memory Police was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize and was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature.