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ⓘ About 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.
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The Gift of Numbers / The Housekeeper and the Professor
Book 3 of 5 · published 2003
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is 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.
Which Yoko Ogawa series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Yōko Ogawa Standalone Novels series, the earliest of Yoko Ogawa's multi-book series: it opens with The Memory Police (1994) and runs to 5 books across 1994–2011, ending with Les Lectures des otages (2011).
How many books has Yoko Ogawa written?
Yoko Ogawa has 11 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1989 and 2011. 8 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being the Yōko Ogawa Standalone Novels series with 5 books — and 3 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Yoko Ogawa's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Yoko Ogawa's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Yōko Ogawa Non-Fiction (1989, 1 book), Yōko Ogawa Collections (1990–1998, 2 books) and Yōko Ogawa Standalone Novels (1994–2011, 5 books).
How are Yoko Ogawa's books organised into series?
This guide splits Yoko Ogawa's 11 books into 3 named series and 3 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Yōko Ogawa Standalone Novels (5 books, 1994–2011); Yōko Ogawa Collections (2 books, 1990–1998); Yōko Ogawa Non-Fiction (1 book, 1989).