Ruth Ozeki – Japanese-American novelist and filmmaker of the late 20th and 21st centuries, author of «A Tale for the Time Being» and «The Book of Form and Emptiness», winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her writing blends Zen philosophy, ecological awareness, and metafictional playfulness.
✨ Born in 1956 in Connecticut to a Japanese-American family. 🎬 Worked as a set designer and independent filmmaker before turning to fiction. 📚 Debuted with «My Year of Meats» (1998), tackling globalization and identity. 🏆 «A Tale for the Time Being» (2013) was a Booker Prize finalist. 🌿 Known for weaving environmental and cultural critique into her prose. 🪷 Ordained Zen Buddhist priest, which deeply shapes her worldview and style. 📖 «The Book of Form and Emptiness» (2021) won the Women’s Prize. 💡 Explores the fluid line between reality and fiction. 👩🏫 Teaches creative writing at Smith College. 🎧 Narrates her own audiobooks with warmth and precision. 😄 Once joked that she writes slowly because she’s “waiting for time itself to tell her the story.”