Anna Ogino


Anna Ogino is a Japanese author and emeritus professor of literature at Keio University. She has won the Akutagawa Prize, the Yomiuri Prize, and the Itō Sei Literature Prize.

Early years

Ogino was born as Anna Gaillard in Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, to a Japanese mother and a French-American father. Her mother, Kinuko Emi, was a prominent abstract painter. Ogino was naturalized during elementary school, and received her undergraduate and master's degree in French literature from Keio University, as well as receiving a scholarship to Paris-Sorbonne University to study Rabelais. In 2002 she became a full professor at Keio.

Career

Ogino began writing in 1983 as text author for comic strips about mermaids. She won the 1991 Akutagawa Prize for '. Her 1991 book ', a critical novel that compares eminent male Japanese authors to different types of foods, has received scholarly attention for its subversive use of parodic language. In 2002 she received the 53rd Yomiuri Prize for '. In 2008 she received the 19th Itō Sei Literature Prize for ', "a tour de force of parody and trauma chronicling her partner’s struggle with, and eventual death from, cancer."

Recognition

Works

', Bungeishunjū, 1990,
  • ', Fukutake Shoten, ', Bungeishunjū, 1991, Blūgeru tonda, Shinchōsha, 1991, ISBN 978-4103817017Ai robu ango, Asahi Shimbun Publication, 1992, ISBN 978-4022640734Kojiki gaiden, Iwanami shoten, 1992, ISBN 4000041576Madona no henshin shikkaku, Fukutake Shoten, 1993, ISBN 978-4828824635Shūkan Ogino, Kadokawa Shoten, 1993, ISBN 978-4041895016Annaryū genki ga nani yori, Kairyūsha, 1993, ISBN 4759303650Taberu onna, Bungeishunjū, 1994, Momo monogatari, Kodansha, 1994, ISBN 4062054434Raburē shuppan, Iwanami shoten, 1994, ISBN 978-4000037327Hyakumanchōsha to kelkun suru kyō, Kodansha, 1995, ISBN 978-4062079402Anna no kōjō kankō, Kyōdō Tsūshinsha, 1995, ISBN 4764103516Metantei Maririn, Asahi Shimbun Publication, 1995, ISBN 978-4022568694Nama mugi・name gome・name akubi, Kodansha, 1995, ISBN 978-4062075657Sora no hon, Parco Publishing, 1996, ISBN 978-4891944865Pari hana no pasa-ju monogatari, NHK shuppan, 1996, ISBN 978-4140052341Hanshi hansei, Kadokawa shoten, 1996, ISBN 978-4048729741Shi no hakken: yōroppa no kosō o tazunete, co-written with Matsubara Hideichi and Yōrō Takeshi, Iwanami shoten, 1997, ISBN 978-4000233163Ichinichi sanshoku hirune jiten, TBS Britanica, 1999, ISBN 978-4484992112Makkana uso no tsukikata, co-written with Terry Itō, Eagle Publishing, 1999, ISBN 978-4901191005Sora tobu buta, Kyōdō Tsūshinsha, 1999, ISBN 978-4764104211『Warau』shikanai!, Mikasa Shobo, 2001, ISBN 978-4837960133
  • ', Bungeishunjū, 2001, Kenage, Iwanami shoten, 2002, ISBN 978-4000227209Ton ton hyōshi, Seiryusha, 2002, ISBN 978-4860290023Anna no enerugi kankō, Ei Shuppansha, 2004, ISBN 978-4777900596Raburē de genki ni naru, Misuzu Shobo, 2005, ISBN 978-4622083146', Shueisha, 2007,
  • Hataraku Anna no hitorikko kaigō, Gurafu sha, 2008, ISBN 978-4766212099Naguru onna, Shueisha, 2009, ISBN 978-4087713183 Erotama, Chuokoron Shinsha, 2013, ISBN 978-4120044960Denki sakka, Goma Books, 2015, ISBN 978-4777116171
  • ', Bungeishunjū, 2017, Rōfujin marianu suzuki no heya'', Asahi Shimbun Publication, 2021, ISBN 978-4022517456

Translations

Tonda tabyurin, translation of Raoul Taburin by Jean-jacques Sempé, Taiheisha, 1997, ISBN 978-4924330436Koibitotachi- a-mu・su-ru, translation of Âmes sœurs by Jean-jacques Sempé, Taiheisha, 1998, ISBN 978-4924330474Ohana no sukina ōkami kun, translation of Maxime Loupiot by Marie-Odile Judes, Kodansha, 1999, ISBN 978-4062619851San・torope, translation of Saint Tropez by Jean-jacques Sempé, Taiheisha, 1999, ISBN 978-4924330528

Works translated into English