Anna Ogino
Introduction  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 * 1991 105th Akutagawa Prize (1991上)* 2002 53rd Yomiuri Prize (2001年度)* 2008 19th Itō Sei Literature Prize
Works and translations * '''', Bungeishunjū, 1990, * '''', Fukutake Shoten, * '''', Bungeishunjū, 1991, * '''', Bungeishunjū, 2001, * '''', Shueisha, 2007, * '''', Bungeishunjū, 2017, * "Mama Drinks Her Tea," trans. Vyjayanthi Ratnam Selinger in ''More Stories by Japanese Women Writers: An Anthology'', ed. Kyoko Selden and Noriko Lippit (M.E. Sharpe, 2011), 102–126. * "Nue," trans. Amanda C. Seaman. ''U.S.-Japan Women's Journal'' 58 (2020): 21–34.
References
External links *  J'Lit | Authors : Anna Ogino | Books from Japan