The author speaks exclusively to Bazaar about winning the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022
June 17, 2022
Harper’s Bazaar | Interview by Marie-Claire Chappet
Ruth Ozeki: "I wouldn't be a writer without the support of women."
The Guardian: Can Objects Teach us about Reality?
Voices of everyday things fill The Book of Form and Emptiness, rooted in how she experienced the loss of her father. Ruth Ozeki on her Women’s prize-winning novel.
June 17, 2022
The Guardian | Interview by Lisa Allardice
Can Objects Teach Us About Reality - Ruth Ozeki on her Women's Prize Winning Novel
iNews Interview (UK): Ruth Ozeki on The Book of Form and Emptiness
“I have all sorts of fancy ideas about why I can’t maintain omniscience. I don’t believe in a monolithic, all-seeing god. I’m mixed-race. I perceive everything as being fractured or multiplicitous; maybe that’s why I see everything from multiple points of view.”
March 26, 2022
iNews
Ruth Ozeki on The Book of Form and Emptiness
Hazlitt - "We Should Probably Listen Harder": An Interview with Ruth Ozeki
“When I think about things left behind, and I think about memory and legacy, of course the first thing that pops to mind is the book. That’s what books are, they’re containers for memory. They’re containers for the stories of the past. It’s an artifact that allows you to communicate with the past. It allows you to communicate with the minds of the dead, if you’re reading dead authors. There’s that lovely idea that if you read the poems of the dead poet out loud, it’s actually the poet who’s borrowing your tongue. It’s the dead poet borrowing the tongues of the living in order to speak again.”
December 8, 2021
Hazlitt | Interview with Haley Cullingham
NBC News - Zen Buddhist priest and novelist Ruth Ozeki transcends genre in her exploration of grief
“Categories are more for academics and booksellers and librarians...I’m not dissing that, but for me, every time I find myself in a category, I want to break it.”
November 1, 2021
NBC News | Asian America | by Victoria Namkung