David Boyd

David Boyd is Assistant Professor of Japanese at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has translated stories by Genichiro Takahashi, Masatsugu Ono and Toh EnJoe, among others. His translation of Hideo Furukawa’s Slow Boat won the 2017⁄2018 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC) Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. With Sam Bett, he is cotranslating the novels of Mieko Kawakami.

Hiroko Oyamada Wrote Her First Book, The Factory, in the Factory Where She Worked

David Boyd on a Writer Who Follows the Weirdness

October 23, 2020 By David Boyd

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Hiroko Oyamada Wrote Her First Book, The Factory, in the Factory Where She Worked

David Boyd on a Writer Who Follows the Weirdness

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