Yoko Ogawa

Yoko Ogawa is a Japanese author made famous by the translation of her novel “Memory Police” into English in 2019. Ogawa was born in Okayama and went to Waseda University. She currently lives with her husband and son in Ashiya Hyogo. While she only came to prominence in the West in recent times, she has been an author since 1988 and has more than forty nonfiction and fiction works published. In 2006, she authored the nonfiction work “An Introduction to the World’s Most Elegant Mathematics alongside the mathematician Masahiko Fujiwara. It was intended to showcase the extraordinary beauty of numbers through dialogue and it became a successful work with both authors and critics.