Her novella Pregnancy Diary, written in brief intervals when her son was a toddler, won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for literature, thus cementing her reputation in Japan. Initially, she wrote only as a hobby, and her husband didn't realise she was a writer until her debut novel, The Breaking of the Butterfly, received a literary prize. When she married her husband, a steel company engineer, she quit her job as a medical university secretary and wrote while her husband was at work. Ogawa was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, and attended Waseda University, Tokyo. Some of her most well known works include The Housekeeper and the Professor, The Diving Pool and Hotel Iris. The Memory Police was also shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020. Internationally, she has been the recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and the American Book Award. Her work has won every major Japanese literary award, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Prize. Yōko Ogawa ( 小川 洋子, Ogawa Yōko, born March 30, 1962) is a Japanese writer. The Housekeeper and the Professor, Pregnancy Diary
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