WRITER

Yōko Ogawa

1962 - Today

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Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子, Ogawa Yōko, born March 30, 1962) is a Japanese writer. Her work has won every major Japanese literary award, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Prize. Internationally, she has been the recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and the American Book Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yōko Ogawa has received more than 328,769 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Yōko Ogawa is the 4,367th most popular writer (down from 4,270th in 2019), the 1,156th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,101st in 2019) and the 92nd most popular Japanese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 330k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yōko Ogawa ranks 4,367 out of 7,302. Before her are Elke Erb, Frik, William Gaddis, Arkady Fiedler, Bhoja, and Rūdolfs Blaumanis. After her are Jacques Roumain, Manuel José Quintana, Zaharia Stancu, Ahmet Altan, Millosh Gjergj Nikolla, and Vicente Espinel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Yōko Ogawa ranks 206. Before her are Ricardo Rocha, Maryna Poroshenko, Mariela Castro, Hana Mandlíková, Ally Sheedy, and Michael Zorc. After her are Lian Ross, Mano Menezes, Magne Furuholmen, Michael Ball, Michael Andretti, and Atiq Rahimi.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yōko Ogawa ranks 1,156 out of 6,245. Before her are Hiroshi Abe (1964), Hisao Sekiguchi (1954), Chushiro Hayashi (1920), Yasushi Akimoto (1958), Akemi Iwata (1954), and Shozo Sasahara (1929). After her are Masato Harada (1949), Ayako Wakao (1933), Masamune Shirow (1961), Gozo Shioda (1915), Tsukasa Hojo (1959), and Kenjiro Tsuda (1971).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Yōko Ogawa ranks 92. Before her are Tōson Shimazaki (1872), Michitsuna's mother (935), Shinichi Hoshi (1926), Hiromi Kawakami (1958), Miyamoto Yuriko (1899), and Masuji Ibuse (1898). After her are Yoshiki Tanaka (1952), Saneatsu Mushanokōji (1885), Sakyo Komatsu (1931), Shuntarō Tanikawa (1931), Koji Suzuki (1957), and Yoko Tawada (1960).

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