Ozeki wins the Women’s Prize for Fiction for her fourth book, The Book of Form and Emptiness.
Nancy Chu talks to Ruth Ozeki about her creative process, the power of grief, and what it’s like growing up mixed-race in America.
An excerpt from Ruth Ozeki’s new novel, “The Book of Form and Emptiness.”
If you use your difficulties to create art, says Ruth Ozeki, it will give them meaning.
This week, novelist and Shambhala Sun contributor Ruth Ozeki was awarded a Canada Japan Literary Award for her novel “A Tale for the Time Being.”
Andrew Sullivan, prolific blogger and former editor the The New Republic, gave a shout-out to award-winning novelist, filmmaker, Zen priest (and, Shambhala Sun contributor) Ruth Ozeki on Sunday. Sullivan noted how Ozeki weaves Buddhism into her writing in natural, subtle ways, and also her “shifty” concept of self. The interview, from the LA Review of Books, […]
Ono no Komachi as an old woman, woodcut by Tsukioka YoshitoshiHow do we remember a woman’s life? Can we piece her together from a few lines of poetry?
Inspired writers are the ones who walk sideways to what most would consider the “real” world. At their best they can portray the confusion that life is and make it feel more real than reality.
Photos by Kris KrugWhen bestselling author Ruth Ozeki becomes a Zen priest, she finds out Zen and novel writing do not easily go hand in hand.
Ruth Ozeki reviews “Writing as Enlightenment: Buddhist American Literature Into the Twenty-First Century”.
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