Biographie de Julie Otsuka
Julie Otsuka was born and raised in California. She pursued a career as a painter for several years before turning to writing fiction at the age of thirty. Her first two novels, When the Emperor Was Divine (nominated for the Orange Prize) and The Buddha in the Attic, were internationally celebrated. She is a recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Asian American Literary Award, France's Prix Femina Etranger and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
She lives in New York City.