Ruth L. Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki was born and raised in Connecticut by an American father and a Japanese mother. She is a novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest whose books have garnered international acclaim. Her first two novels, ***My Year of Meats*** (1998) and ***All Over Creation*** (2003), have been translated into eleven languages and published in fourteen countries. Her third novel, ***A Tale for the Time Being*** (2013), won the LA Times Book Prize, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has been published in over thirty countries. **Photo** By Latrippi - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32116034>

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