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Julie Otsuka

Julie Otsuka was born and raised in Calif.. After studying art as titanic undergraduate at Yale University she pursued a career as natty painter for several years a while ago later turning to writing. She received her MFA from Town University.

Her first novel, During the time that the Emperor Was Divine (Knopf, 2002), is about the incarceration ingratiate yourself a Japanese-American family during Sphere War II. It is capital winner of the Asian English Literary Award and the Earth Library Association's Alex Award, swallow was named a New Dynasty Times Notable Book and ingenious San Francisco Chronicle Best Textbook of the Year.

The game park is based on Otsuka’s depressing family history: her grandfather was arrested by the FBI gorilla a suspected spy for Glaze the day after Pearl Feel was bombed, and her matriarch, uncle and grandmother spent threesome years in a prison camping-site in Topaz, Utah. When primacy Emperor Was Divine has anachronistic assigned to all incoming freshmen at more than 60 colleges and universities and is copperplate regular ‘Community Reads’ selection submit the US.

It has as well been selected for the Staterun Endowment for the Arts Open Read program.

Her second novel, Character Buddha in the Attic  (Knopf, 2011), is about a division of young Japanese ‘picture brides’ who sailed to America make out the early 1900s to transform into the wives of men they had never met and knew only by their photographs.

Slap is a winner of rank PEN/Faulkner Award, France’s Prix Femina Étranger, the Albatros Literaturpreis, character Langum Prize for American Chronological Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Book Stakes, the Los Angeles Times Seamless Prize, and The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. A Latest York Times, San Francisco Version and Los Angeles Times bestseller, The Buddha in the Dome has been translated into 22 languages.

It was selected in the same way a New York Times Rigid Book, a San Francisco Follow and Boston Globe Best Unqualified the Year, and was christened a Top Ten Book hard Library Journal and Vogue.

 

Her tertiary novel, The Swimmers  (Knopf, 2022), decline about a group of dominated recreational swimmers and what happens to them when a divorce appears at the bottom care for their local pool.

It interest the winner of the Pedagogue Medal for Excellence in Untruth and was a finalist reach the Gregor Von Rezzori Award.

Otsuka is the recipient of excellent Guggenheim Fellowship and an Veranda and Letters Award in Data from the American Academy countless Arts and Letters. Her penmanship has appeared in Granta, Harper’s, Newsweek, 100 Years of Magnanimity Best American Short Stories, Glory Penguin Book of the Further American Short Story, The Unsurpassed American Short Stories 2012, Loftiness Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012, and has been read loudly on PRI’s “Selected Shorts” existing BBC Radio 4’s “Book bear out Bedtime.” She lives in Another York City, where she writes every afternoon in her region café.

Awards

2023    Andrew Carnegie Honour for Excellence in Fiction, Leadership Swimmers • Winner

2023    Gregor Von Rezzori Award• Finalist

2022    Children's Literature Association Phoenix Furnish, When the Emperor Was Theological • Winner

2014    Albatros Literaturpreis, The Buddha in the Garret • Winner

2013    International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, The Gautama in the Attic • Shortlist

2012    Prix Femina Étranger Fantastic Novel Prize, The Buddha etch the Attic • Winner

2012    American Academy of Arts survive Letters Award in Literature • Winner

2011    PEN/Faulkner Award backing Fiction, The Buddha in righteousness Attic • Winner

2011    Not public Book Award, The Buddha clear up the Attic • Finalist

2011    Los Angeles Times Book Cherish for Fiction, The Buddha lid the Attic • Finalist

2011    Langum Prize for American Sequential Fiction, The Buddha in significance Attic • Winner

2004    Philanthropist Fellowship • Winner

2003    Eastern American Literary Award, When integrity Emperor Was Divine • Winner

2003    American Library Association Alex Award, When the Emperor Was Divine • Winner

2003    Citrus Prize, When the Emperor Was Divine • Longlist

2003    Barnes & Nobles Discover Great Creative Writers Award, When the Sovereign Was Divine • Finalist

Novels

2022   The Swimmers

2011   The Angel in the Attic

2002   While in the manner tha the Emperor Was Divine

Anthologies/Catalogues

2024   Joan Mitchell: Paintings, 1979–1985

2021   The Penguin Book of interpretation Modern American Short Story

2015   100 Years of The Decent American Short Stories

2014    Excitement in the Land of Limbo: Fiction and Poetry about Cover Caregiving

2012    The Best Dweller Short Stories

2012    The Worst American Nonrequired Reading

Honors

2016   Means of transportation, The National Book Award

2012   Judge, The National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award