Books by Hiroko Oyamada

Born in Hiroshima in 1983, HIROKO OYAMADA a is the author of two novellas: The Factory, which won the Shincho Prize for New Writers, and The Hole, which won Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize. Oyamada has also written numerous short stories and essays. DAVID BOYD is an award-winning translator, and assistant professor of Japanese at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has translated fiction by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, Izumi Suzuki, and Mieko Kawakami, among others.