In partnership with Amazon studios, Reed Morano and Charlie Kaufman are set to adapt The Memory Police. Her novel The Housekeeper and the Professor was adapted into the movie The Professor's Beloved Equation. The 2005 French film L'Annulaire ( The Ringfinger) was based in part on Ogawa's Kusuriyubi no hyōhon. Her work has been published in the New Yorker, A Public Space and Zoetrope. In 2006, she worked alongside the mathematician Masahiko Fujiwara to co-write 'An Introduction to the World's Most Elegant Mathematics', a dialogue on the extraordinary beauty of numbers. Much of her work has yet to be translated into English. Since 1988, Ogawa has published more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction. Her novella Pregnancy Diary, written in brief intervals when her son was a toddler, won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for literature, thus cementing her reputation in Japan.

Initially, she wrote only as a hobby, and her husband didn't realise she was a writer until her debut novel, The Breaking of the Butterfly, received a literary prize. When she married her husband, a steel company engineer, she quit her job as a medical university secretary and wrote while her husband was at work. Ogawa was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, and attended Waseda University, Tokyo. Some of her most well known works include The Housekeeper and the Professor, The Diving Pool and Hotel Iris. The Memory Police was also shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020. Internationally, she has been the recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and the American Book Award. Her work has won every major Japanese literary award, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Prize. Yōko Ogawa ( 小川洋子, Ogawa Yōko, born March 30, 1962) is a Japanese writer. The Housekeeper and the Professor, Pregnancy Diary

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