Yōko Ogawa

Yoko Ogawa (小川洋子, born in 1962 with Okayama) is a writer E Japan ease, author of many Romance S - courts until in 1996 - as well as Nouvelle S and of Essai S.

It gained the prestigious Prix Akutagawa for the Pregnancy in 1991, and also the Prix Tanizaki, Prix Izumi, Prix Yomiuri, and the Prix Kaien for its beginning.

Its romantic universe is characterized by an obsession of the classification, will to keep the trace of the memories or past ( Annular the , 1994; the Museum of Silence , 2000), this will combined with the meticulous analysis of the narrator (or, less frequently, of the narrator) of her own feelings and motivations (which come often by far) frequently leading to deviations and perversions out of the commun run, the whole written with simple words which accentuate the force of the account.

It is influenced by the traditional Japanese writers like Junichiro Tanizaki, but also, thanks to its writer preferred Haruki Murakami, by American authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote and Raymond Carver. During his studies in English/American literature at the university of Tokyo, its professor, Motoyuki Shibata (which make the first translation of English Ogawa, and Japanese translator of Paul Auster) make known to him Paul Auster, whose novel Moon Palace is a great influence on Ogawa.

Into European languages, its novels were translated into French, German, Greek, Spanish, Catalan, and recently in English (in the United States) and Italian. Generally translated is its novel Hôtel Iris , which is less implicit than (and thus a little different from) its other works and which treated sexual relationship (of Shibari, or Bondage Japanese) between a 17 year old girl and an old man. A film adaptation of its news Annular the left to France in June 2005, a film of Diane Bertrand with Olga Kurylenko and Marc Barbé. In Japan, the preferred formula of the professor receives the Yomiuri Price and also left there out of film (2005), as a cartoon (2006) and out of audio Cd (2006).

Its works

Translated into French (by Rose-Marie Makino-Fayolle):

a Perfect sick room (完璧な病室 Kanpeki Na byōshitsu, 9/1989; Acts south 2003; news)
the Disintegration of the butterfly (揚羽蝶が壊れる時 Agehachō ga kowareru toki, 9/1989, Price Kaien 1988; Actes Sud 2003; news)
the which does not cool (冷めない紅茶 Same nai kōcha, 8/1990; Actes Sud 1998; news)
the Swimming pool (ダイヴィング・プール Daibingu puru, 8/1990; Actes Sud 1995; news)
the Pregnancy (妊娠カレンダー Ninshin karendā, 2/1991, Price Akutagawa 1990; Actes Sud 1997; news)
the Bees (ドミトリイ Domitorī, 2/1991; Actes Sud 1995; news)
the Refectory one evening and a swimming pool under the rain (夕暮れの給食室と雨のプール Yūgure No kyūshoku shitsu to heart No pūru, 2/1991; Actes Sud 1998; news)
Amours strokes of it (余白の愛 Yohaku No have, 11/1991; Actes Sud 2005; novel)
Annular the (薬指の標本 Kusuriyubi No hyōhon, 10/1994; Actes Sud 1999; news)
the Small hexagonal part (六角形の小部屋 Rokukakukei No shō heya, 10/1994; Actes Sud 2004; news)
Hotel Iris (ホテル・アイリス Hoteru Airisu, 11/1996; Actes Sud 2000; novel)
Perfume of ice (凍りついた香り Kōritsui your kaori, 4/1998; Actes Sud 2002; novel)
Sad revenges (寡黙な死骸みだらな弔い Kamoku Na shigai, will midara Na will tomurai, 6/1998; Actes Sud 2004; 11 stories)
the Museum of silence (沈黙博物館 Chinmoku hakubutsukan, 9/2000; Actes Sud, 2003; novel)
the unexpected Blessing (偶然の祝福 Gūzen No shukufuku, 12/2000; Acts, 2007; 7 stories)
the Eyelids (まぶた Mabuta, 3/2001; Actes Sud, 2007; 8 stories)
the preferred Formula of the professor (博士の愛した数式 Hakase No aishi your sūshiki, 8/2003, Price Yomiuri 2004; Actes Sud 2005; novel)

Still not-translated books at the beginning of 2007:

シュガータイム Shugā taimu, 2/1991
アンジェリーナ - 佐野元春と 10 の短編 Angelina sano motoharu to 10 No tanpen, 4/1993 (10 stories)
妖精が舞い下りる夜 Yōsei ga May oriru yoru, 7/1993 (5 tests)
密やかな結晶 Hisoyaka Na kesshō, 1/1994
アンネ・フランクの記憶 Anne Furanku No kioku, 9/1995
刺繍する少女 Shishū suru shōjo, 3/1996
やさしい訴え Yasashī uttae, 12/1996
深き心の底より Fukaki kokoro No soko yori, 7/1999
貴婦人 has の蘇生 Kifujin has No sosei, 1/2002
ブラフマンの埋葬 Burafuman No maisō, 4/2004, Prix Izumi 2004
世にも美しい数学入門 Yo nor Mo utsukushī sūgaku nyūmon, 4/2005 (introduction to the maths, with mathematician Masahiko Fujiwara)
犬のしっぽを撫でながら Inu No shippo O nade will nagara, 4/2006 (10 stories)
おとぎ話の忘れ物 Otogibanashi No wasuremono, 4/2006 (magazine)
ミーナの行進 Mīna No kōshin, 4/2006, Prix Tanizaki 2006 (magazine)
海 Umi, 10/2006
小川洋子対話集 Ogawa Yōko taiwa shū, 1/2007 (conversations)
物語の役割 Monogatari No yakuwari, 2/2007

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