Yoko Ogawa

Writer and novelist Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award available

Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope. Her works include The Diving Pool, a collection of three novellas, The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris and the story collection Revenge.

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Reading guide: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, The Memory Police is an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan’s greatest writers

An extract from The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020, The Memory Police is a haunting meditation on loss from one of Japan’s greatest writers. Read an extract from our October Book of the Month here

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The Memory Police

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020. A beautiful, haunting and provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss from Yoko Ogawa, one of Japan’s greatest writers