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Ruth Ozeki

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Ruth Diana Lounsbury, better known as Ruth Ozeki, is an American author, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest.

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Ruth Ozeki
said · 2017
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We’re afraid of saying the word “suicide” and talking about it. Certainly the word suicide has a kind of energy that is frightening, and people can be afraid of talking about it.

On adolescents and suicidal thoughts in “Ruth Ozeki: Neither here nor there” in The Writer (2017 Feb 24)

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Ruth Ozeki
said · 2017
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All through my childhood, I wanted to be a novelist. I stopped writing at various points because I would get frustrated because there were things I didn’t know how to do.

On her initial struggles to become a novelist in “Ruth Ozeki: Neither here nor there” in The Writer (2017 Feb 24)

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Ruth Ozeki
said · 2013
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I lived most of my life feeling like an outsider. I remember in second grade being bullied, taunted and beaten up.

On feeling like an outsider most of her life in “Ruth Ozeki: 'This book is about the character creating a novelist'” in The Guardian (2013

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Awards 5

2022Women's Prize for Fiction
2014Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature
2014Dos Passos Prize
2004American Book Awards
2004WILLA Literary Award

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Ruth Diana Lounsbury, better known as Ruth Ozeki, is an American author, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. Her books and films, including the novels My Year of Meats (1998), All Over Creation (2003), A Tale for the Time Being (2013), and The Book of Form and Emptiness (2021), seek to integrate personal narrative and social issues, and deal with themes relating to science, technology, environmental politics, race, religion, war and global popular culture.

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United States
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Born 1956 · age 70
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