Author and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki wins Women's Prize for Fiction

Author and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki wins Women's Prize for Fiction

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Category : Awards Published on: June 22 2022

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Renowned US-Canadian author, film-maker, and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki has won the Women's Prize for Fiction this year for her novel 'The Book of Form and Emptiness'.
Ozeki's fourth novel, 'The Book of Form and Emptiness' tells the story of a thirteen-year-old boy who, after the tragic death of his father, starts to hear the voices of objects speaking to him.
The other five shortlisted books included ‘The Bread the Devil Knead’ by Lisa Allen-Agostini, ‘The Sentence’ by Louise Erdrich, ‘Sorrow and Bliss’ by Meg Mason, ‘The Island of Missing Trees’ by Elif Shafak, and ‘Great Circle’ by Maggie Shipstead.
The Women’s prize for fiction, formerly known as the Orange and then the Baileys prize, was launched in 1996 and is awarded to “the best full-length novel of the year by a woman” written in English and published in the UK.

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