Anna Ogino

Anna Ogino (荻野 アンナ, Ogino Anna; born November 7, 1956) 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 Seoi-mizu (背負い水, Water Burden). Her 1991 book Watakushi no aidokusho (私の愛毒書, My love-hate affair with books), 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 Horafuki Anri no bōken (ホラ吹きアンリの冒険, The Adventures of Henri the Braggart). In 2008 she received the 19th Itō Sei Literature Prize for Kani to kare to watashi (蟹と彼と私, The Crab, Him and Me), "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

Yukitai (遊機体, Floating Objects), Bungeishunjū, 1990, ISBN 9784163121802

Watakushi no aidokusho (私の愛毒書, My Love-Hate Affair with Books), Fukutake Shoten, ISBN 9784828823980

Seoi-mizu (背負い水, Water Burden), Bungeishunjū, 1991, ISBN 9784163127606

Blūgeru tonda (ブリューゲル、飛んだ), Shinchōsha, 1991, ISBN 978-4103817017

Ai robu ango (アイ・ラブ安吾), Asahi Shimbun Publication, 1992, ISBN 978-4022640734

Kojiki gaiden (コジキ外伝), Iwanami shoten, 1992, ISBN 4000041576

Madona no henshin shikkaku (マドンナの変身失格), Fukutake Shoten, 1993, ISBN 978-4828824635

Shūkan Ogino (週刊オギノ), Kadokawa Shoten, 1993, ISBN 978-4041895016

Annaryū genki ga nani yori (アンナ流 元気がなにより), Kairyūsha, 1993, ISBN 4759303650

Taberu onna (食べる女), Bungeishunjū, 1994, ISBN 978-4-16-314690-4

Momo monogatari (桃物語), Kodansha, 1994, ISBN 4062054434

Raburē shuppan (ラブレー出帆 ), Iwanami shoten, 1994, ISBN 978-4000037327

Hyakumanchōsha to kelkun suru kyō (百万長者と結婚する教), Kodansha, 1995, ISBN 978-4062079402

Anna no kōjō kankō (アンナの工場観光), Kyōdō Tsūshinsha, 1995, ISBN 4764103516

Metantei Maririn (名探偵マリリン), Asahi Shimbun Publication, 1995, ISBN 978-4022568694

Nama mugi・name gome・name akubi (生ムギ・生ゴメ・生アクビ), Kodansha, 1995, ISBN 978-4062075657

Sora no hon (空の本), Parco Publishing, 1996, ISBN 978-4891944865

Pari hana no pasa-ju monogatari (パリ 華のパサージュ物語), NHK shuppan, 1996, ISBN 978-4140052341

Hanshi hansei (半死半生), Kadokawa shoten, 1996, ISBN 978-4048729741

Shi no hakken: yōroppa no kosō o tazunete (死の発見：ヨーロッパの古層を訪ねて), co-written with Matsubara Hideichi and Yōrō Takeshi, Iwanami shoten, 1997, ISBN 978-4000233163

Ichinichi sanshoku hirune jiten (一日三食ひるね辞典), TBS Britanica, 1999, ISBN 978-4484992112

Makkana uso no tsukikata (まっかなウソのつき方), co-written with Terry Itō, Eagle Publishing, 1999, ISBN 978-4901191005

Sora tobu buta (空飛ぶ豚), Kyōdō Tsūshinsha, 1999, ISBN 978-4764104211

『Warau』shikanai! (『笑う』しかない！), Mikasa Shobo, 2001, ISBN 978-4837960133

Horafuki Anri no bōken (ホラ吹きアンリの冒険, The Adventures of Henri the Braggart), Bungeishunjū, 2001, ISBN 9784163198200

Kenage (けなげ), Iwanami shoten, 2002, ISBN 978-4000227209

Ton ton hyōshi (とんとん拍子), Seiryusha, 2002, ISBN 978-4860290023

Anna no enerugi kankō (アンナのエネルギー観光), Ei Shuppansha, 2004, ISBN 978-4777900596

Raburē de genki ni naru (ラブレーで元気になる), Misuzu Shobo, 2005, ISBN 978-4622083146

Kani to kare to watashi (蟹と彼と私, The Crab, Him and Me), Shueisha, 2007, ISBN 9784087748727

Hataraku Anna no hitorikko kaigō (働くアンナの一人っ子介護), Gurafu sha, 2008, ISBN 978-4766212099

Naguru onna (殴る女), Shueisha, 2009, ISBN 978-4087713183

Erotama (えろたま), Chuokoron Shinsha, 2013, ISBN 978-4120044960

Denki sakka (電気作家), Goma Books, 2015, ISBN 978-4777116171

Kashisugawa (カシス川, River of Cassis), Bungeishunjū, 2017, ISBN 9784163907345

Rōfujin marianu suzuki no heya (老婦人マリアンヌ鈴木の部屋), Asahi Shimbun Publication, 2021, ISBN 978-4022517456

Translations

Tonda tabyurin (とんだタビュラン), translation of Raoul Taburin (1995) by Jean-jacques Sempé, Taiheisha, 1997, ISBN 978-4924330436

Koibitotachi- a-mu・su-ru (恋人たち- ア－ム・ス－ル), translation of Âmes sœurs (1991) by Jean-jacques Sempé, Taiheisha, 1998, ISBN 978-4924330474

Ohana no sukina ōkami kun (おはなのすきなおおかみくん), translation of Maxime Loupiot by Marie-Odile Judes, Kodansha, 1999, ISBN 978-4062619851

San・torope (サン・トロペ), translation of Saint Tropez (1968) by Jean-jacques Sempé, Taiheisha, 1999, ISBN 978-4924330528

Works translated into English

"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.