Yoko Ogawa

Yōko Ogawa is a Japanese writer whose work has won major Japanese literary prizes, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Prize. Internationally, she has received the Shirley Jackson Award and the American Book Award. Her book The Memory Police was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020, and she is also known for The Housekeeper and the Professor, The Diving Pool and Hotel Iris.