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Ruth Ozeki

June 2022

  • Ruth Ozeki with the fountain pen she wears as a necklace

    ‘Can objects teach us about reality?’: Ruth Ozeki on her Women’s prize-winning novel

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    Ruth Ozeki’s ‘complete joy’ of a novel wins Women’s prize for fiction

April 2022

  • Elif Shafak, Maggie Shipstead, Meg Mason.

    Six ‘wonderfully diverse’ novels make the Women’s prize shortlist

    Louise Erdrich, Elif Shafak and debut novelist Lisa Allen-Agostini are among the contenders offering an ‘escape’ from global crises

March 2022

  • Author Ruth Ozeki, photographed in New York last month, looking into a mirror

    It’s been a year since I’ve been close to a stranger’s mouth – can I recover from ‘Zoom face’?

    Our features have been obscured by masks, or viewed on screens, for months. We may never look at ourselves in the same way again, writes novelist Ruth Ozeki

October 2021

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    The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki review – the story of Oh

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    Book of the day
    The Book of Form & Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki review – a Zen chorus

May 2015

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    On my radar
    On my radar: Thea Gilmore’s cultural highlights

    The singer-songwriter on the return of Blur, the loneliness in Edward Hopper’s paintings, BBC TV satire W1A and the inspirational atmosphere of Liverpool

April 2014

  • Neil Gaiman

    Top 10s
    The top 10 writers to see live

    To mark World Book Night, which is being celebrated around the country with readings by some of our most celebrated writers, novelist Matt Haig applauds the authors who are stars of stage and page

February 2014

  • Ruth Ozeki

    Ruth Ozeki beats Thomas Pynchon to top Kitschie award

    Red Tentacle prize for 'progressive, intelligent and entertaining' fiction goes to A Tale for the Time Being

December 2013

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    The publishers' year: hits and misses of 2013

    The hits, the misses and the ones that nearly were – top publishers choose their books of the year

October 2013

  • Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being

    Booker 2013 hustings
    Booker prize 2013: why Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being should win - video

    Richard Lea argues that Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being should win this year's Man Booker prize

September 2013

  • Assumption of the Virgin Mary by Giuseppe Ghedine.

    Reader reviews roundup
    Reader reviews roundup

    Colm Toibin's and Ruth Ozeki's Booker shortlisted novels are among the books under review this week

March 2013

  • A house adrift off the coast of north eastern Japan following the earthquake and tsunami

    A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki – review

  • Ruth Ozeki

    Meet the author
    Ruth Ozeki: 'This book is about the character creating a novelist'

June 2003

  • Spud is thicker than water

    In All Over Creation, Ruth Ozeki cross-breeds a narrative of personal growth with the politics of GM crops

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