# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yoko-ogawa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:10:16.145Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yoko-ogawa"
name: "Yoko Ogawa"
slug: "yoko-ogawa"
description: "Yōko Ogawa  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. The Memory Police was also shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020."
tagline: "Japanese novelist (1962-)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1962-03-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.31
  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.715988
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1207356"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump