Julie Otsuka

Details

Instance of

human

Born

15 May 1962

Place of birth

Palo Alto

Sex or gender

female

Given name

Julie

Family name

Ōtsuka

Field of work

Asian-American literature

Occupation

novelist, writer

Citizenship

United States

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship, Prix Femina étranger, Asian American Literary Awards, Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

educated at

Columbia University, Yale University, Columbia University School of the Arts, Palos Verdes Peninsula High School, Silliman College

languages spoken, written or signed

English

notable work

When the Emperor was Divine, The Swimmers

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