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Yoko Ogawa

Forfatterbiografi

Yoko Ogawa (おがわ ようこ) er en japansk forfatter, født i 1962 i Okayama. Hun blev litterært kendt fra slutningen af 1980’erne og fik sit internationale gennembrud gennem engelsksprogede udgivelser af sine romaner og noveller. Hendes forfatterskab kredser ofte om erindring, tab og det uhyggelige, men også om relationer og et nøgternt blik for menneskelige vilkår, hvilket gør hende central i den samtidige japanske psykologiske og foruroligende fortælleform. Hun debuterede i 1988, og hun vandt Akutagawa-prisen i 1990 for novellesamlingens titelhistorie “Pregnancy Diary” (på dansk kendt i bearbejdet form som “Graviditetsdagbog”). Senere blev hun bl.a. hædret for “The Housekeeper and the Professor” (Yomiuri Literary Prize) og for romanen “Small Box”, som ifølge japansk forlags- og kulturinformation blev belønnet med Noma Literary Prize i 2020. Hendes betydning for litteraturen ses i, at hun formår at kombinere stram fortællekunst med filosofiske undertoner om tid og hukommelse, og at hendes bøger er blevet læst og oversat bredt. På dansk udkommer blandt andet “De tabte minders ø”, hvor Gyldendal fremhæver romanens tema om mindernes kraft og det sorgprægede opgør med glemsel.

Bøger af Yoko Ogawa

'De tabte minders ø'
'De tabte minders ø'

Lydbog | Dansk

De tabte minders ø er en roman om mindernes kraft, om frygtens hærgen og kærligheden som ingen kan tage fra én. På en isoleret ø begynder tingene gradvist at forsvinde;fugle, roser, bøger og med dem minderne om deres eksistens. Kun få mennesker kan ikke

'The Diving Pool'
'The Diving Pool'

Bog | Engelsk

Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities. A youn

'Memory Police'
'Memory Police'

Lydbog | Engelsk

Brought to you by Penguin.Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers.__________Hat, ribbon, bird rose.To the people on the island, a

'The Housekeeper and the Professor'
'The Housekeeper and the Professor'

Bog | Engelsk

He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care o

'Revenge'
'Revenge'

Bog | Engelsk

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY POLICE 'A conspicuously gifted writerTo read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt. She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance' Guardian Murderers an

'The Diving Pool'
'The Diving Pool'

Bog | Engelsk

Three strange, tortuous stories from the shadow queen of contemporary Japanese fiction. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an unspoken infatuation that draws

'The Memory Police'
'The Memory Police'

Bog | Engelsk

"The Memory Police" af Yoko Ogawa er en poetisk og hjemsøgende roman om en dystopisk ø, hvor minderne forsvinder. Hatte, fugle, roser. For folket på øen har de forsvundne ting ikke længere nogen mening. Snart vil øen glemme, at den selv eksister

'The Memory Police'
'The Memory Police'

Bog | Engelsk

Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor . On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: fi

'Mina's Matchbox'
'Mina's Matchbox'

Bog | Engelsk

From the award-winning author of The Memory Police and The Housekeeper and the Professor , a hypnotic novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them. "A story of first enchantments and

'Revenge'
'Revenge'

Bog | Engelsk

"Each tale here seems to be its own torture chamber--dark and meticulous . . . More disturbing than the bloody imagery is the eerie calm with which each plot unfolds, as if one act of violence must necessarily transform into the portal for another.&q

'The Memory Police'
'The Memory Police'

Bog | Engelsk

A beautifully designed special edition of the must-read dystopia from one of Japan's most urgent literary voices. On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . To the people on the island, a disappeared th

'The Housekeeper and the Professor'
'The Housekeeper and the Professor'

Bog | Engelsk

Yoko Ogawa's The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family. He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumati

'Mina's Matchbox'
'Mina's Matchbox'

Bog | Engelsk

On sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of the girl who gathered shooting stars. After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle in the coastal town of Ashiya. It is a year which will c

'Hotel Iris'
'Hotel Iris'

Bog | Engelsk

"[Ogawa] creates moments of breathtaking ugliness, often when least expected . . . but also sometimes a longing that is touching and tender." --Daniel Hahn, The Independent From the award-winning author of Mina's Matchbox and The Memory Poli

'The Housekeeper and the Professor'
'The Housekeeper and the Professor'

Bog | Engelsk

Yoko Ogawa's The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family. He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumati

'De tabte minders ø'
'De tabte minders ø'

Bog | Dansk

Yoko Ogawas "De tabte minders ø" er en poetisk og dystopisk fortælling om en ø, hvor ting og minderne om dem forsvinder på mystisk vis. Helt ude på en isoleret ø begynder fugle, roser, parfume og andre genstande at forsvinde en for en. Samtidig