Grazia sits down with the author to chat about The Book of Form and Emptiness
, which was awarded The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022 on Wednesday. ‘The reality still hasn’t really penetrated,’ Ozeki tells Grazia of her win. ‘I’m just in a state of confusion and disbelief.’, which follows thirteen-year-old Benny Oh as he begins to hear voices of ornaments, scissors, books and pieces of lettuce after his father unexpectedly dies, Ozeki pipped the likes of Elif Shfak, Maggie Shipstead, Meg Mason, and Louise Erdrich to the esteemed accolade.
Ozeki, who is also a Zen Buddhist priest, has always found books to be a balm from turmoil, a trait she shares with her protagonist who finds a community to help navigate his grief in his local library: ‘Libraries have always been my safe space,’ Ozeki tells Grazia. ‘Being amongst all the books is thrilling to me.There’s a kind of relaxation that happens in a library that I never really feel anyplace else…You come in from the outside…and it’s almost like going into a church.
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