Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki ( born March 12, 1956 in New Haven (Connecticut) ) is a Japanese-American writer.

Life

Ruth Ozeki grew up as the daughter of an American father and a Japanese woman in New Haven. She studied English and Asian Studies at Smith College and a scholarship from the Japanese Government Japanese literature at the University Nara, Nara. In Japan, she worked and also worked as a language teacher at the Sangyo University Kyoto. In 1985 she returned to New York City and worked as an art director in the film industry and for television.

Her film Body of Correspondence (1994 ) received an award at the San Francisco Film Festival and was shown by PBS. Her film halving the Bones (1995 ) was at various film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival, the World Film Festival in Montreal and the Margaret Mead Film Festival shown.

She studied Zen Buddhism in Zoketsu Norman Fischer and 2010 received ordination.

With Oliver Kellhammer she has a residence on the land in British Columbia, for the writing she seeks creative tranquility of a place such as hedge Brook, a writing workshop for women on Whidbey Iceland in the state of Washington.

Works (selection)

• Beef. From the Amerikan. by Ursula Wulfekamp. Fretz and Wasmuth, Bern 1998, ISBN 3-502-11925-2. (My Year of Meats, 1998)
• All Over Creation. Picador, 2003, ISBN 0-330-49028-1.
• A Tale for the Time Being. Novel. Canongate Books, 2013. History for a moment. Translated by Tobias Schnettler. S. Fischer, 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-055220-4.

Film productions (selection)

• Body of Correspondence (1994 )
• Halving the Bones, 1995.