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Julie Otsuka

Julie Otsuka
Julie Otsuka is the author of When the Emperor Was Divine, winner of the 2003 American Library Association Alex Award, and The Buddha in the Attic, the winner of the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The Buddha in the Attic was an international bestseller and the winner of the prestigious Prix Femina étranger 2012, and the Albatros Literaturpreis 2013. Otsuka’s next novel, The Swimmers, was published by A.A. Knopf in February, 2022, and won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction in 2023.


Julie Otsuka on Writing From and Into Memories

"These boxes were my inheritance, the stuff out of which my novels are made."
August 8, 2023  By Julie Otsuka
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