This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, in for Terry Gross. Novelist Julie Otsuka has just been awarded the Carnegie Medal for Excellence for her book "The Swimmers." It's about a group of people who ...

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Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Julie Otsuka is an award-winning Japanese American author. This year, the ...

Twenty years after appearing at the first-ever Franklin & Marshall College Emerging Writers Festival, Julie Otsuka, the New York Times bestselling author of three novels, will soon return to campus.

OTSUKA: I just finished Katie Kitamura’s “Intimacies.” It’s fabulous. The main character is a translator at The Hague in a war crimes trial. The book casts a spell in the same way Marguerite Duras’s ...

In a time of national crisis, a group of people who considered themselves very much American found that overnight they had become listed as enemies of the state and a possible threat to national ...

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FILE - Author Julie Otsuka poses with her book "Certaines n'avaient jamais vu la mer", (Some Never Saw the Sea,) after she was awarded the French literary prize Femina for foreigners, in Paris on Nov.

TERRY GROSS: Julie Otsuka, welcome to FRESH AIR. I love your writing, so I'm very glad you're here. I want to start with a reading from the first page of "The Swimmers," your new novel, because I want ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Novelist Julie Otsuka has strong memories of libraries from her childhood California — the bike rides with her best friend to the local branch; the soft, firm sound of librarians ...