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.
'If you’ve lost your way with fiction over the last year or two, let The Book of Form and Emptiness light your way home.’ * David Mitchell on The Book of Form and Emptiness * 'No one writes quite like Ruth Ozeki and The Book of Form and Emptiness is a triumph.’ * Matt Haig on The Book of Form and Emptiness * 'Ten out of ten.’ * John Safran, RN Bookshelf * 'Ozeki gives us a metaphor for our very own American consumption disorder, our love-hate relationship with the stuff we produce and can’t let go of.’ * New York Times Book Review *