Anna Ogino Explained

Anna Ogino
Native Name:	荻野 アンナ
Native Name Lang:	Japanese
Birth Name:	Anna Gaillard
Birth Place:	Kanagawa, Japan
Occupation:	Writer, professor
Language:	Japanese
Citizenship:	Japanese
Education:	Paris-Sorbonne University
Alma Mater:	Keio University
Genre:	Fiction
Notableworks:	Seoi mizu Horafuki-Anri no bōken Kani to kare to watashi
Awards:	Akutagawa Prize Yomiuri Prize Itō Sei Literature Prize

^[1] is a Japanese author and emeritus professor of literature at Keio University.^[2] 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.^[3] Her mother, Kinuko Emi, was a prominent abstract painter.^[4] 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.^[5]

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.^{[6] [7]} 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."^[8]

Recognition

• 1991 105th Akutagawa Prize (1991上)^[9]
• 2002 53rd Yomiuri Prize (2001年度)^[10]
• 2008 19th Itō Sei Literature Prize^[11]

Works

• , Bungeishunjū, 1990,
• , Fukutake Shoten,
• , Bungeishunjū, 1991,
• 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 978-4163146904
• 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
• , Bungeishunjū, 2001,
• 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
• , Shueisha, 2007,
• 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
• , Bungeishunjū, 2017,
• 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

• Tonta raburē (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.

External links

• J'Lit | Authors : Anna Ogino | Books from Japan

Notes and References

1. Book: Japanese women novelists in the 20th century: 104 biographies, 1990-1993. Museum Tusculanum Press. 1994. Sachiko. Shibata Schierbeck. Marlene R.. Edelstein. 9788772892689.
2. Web site: Details of a Researcher - Ogino, Anna .
3. Book: McKeon, Midori. Ogino Anna's Gargantuan Play in Tales of Peaches. Rebecca L.. Copeland. Esperanza. Ramirez-Christensen. The Father-Daughter Plot: Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father. University of Hawaii Press. 2001. 327–367. 9780824824389.
4. Web site: 荻野アンナのキリギリス式老後「亡き母・江見絹子の作品を残そうと一大決心。老後資金をつぎこんで」 お金はあの世にはもっていけないから｜お金｜婦人公論.jp . 2022-04-14 . 婦人公論.jp . ja.
5. Web site: Professor Ogino Anna. Keio University. September 10, 2018.
6. Tomoko. Aoyama. The Love that poisons: Japanese parody and the new literacy. Japan Forum. 6. 1. 1994. 35–46. 10.1080/09555809408721499.
7. Reiko. Abe Auestad. Ogino Anna and parodic language. Japan Forum. 10. 1. 1998. 31–45. 10.1080/09555809808721602.
8. Amanda. Seaman. Introduction to 'Nue'. U.S.-Japan Women's Journal. 58. 2020. 1 . 21. 10.1353/jwj.2020.0007. 234772779 .
9. Web site: 芥川賞受賞者一覧. japanese. List of Akutagawa Prize Winners. 日本文学振興会. January 1, 2018. July 7, 2018.
10. Web site: 読売文学賞 第５１回（１９９９年度）～第６０回（２００８年度）. japanese. Yomiuri Prizes from 51st (FY1999) to 60th (FY2008). Yomiuri Shimbun. September 10, 2018. September 11, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180911044542/https://info.yomiuri.co.jp/contest/clspgl/detail/717.html. dead.
11. Web site: 伊藤整文学賞. japanese. 伊藤整文学賞の会. September 8, 2018.