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.

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.

Books by David Boyd

  • The Factory

    Hiroko Oyamada, David Boyd

    Paperback, 2019

    The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Japan
  • The Hole

    Hiroko Oyamada, David Boyd

    Paperback, 2020

    Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, The Hole is by turns reminiscent of Lewis Carroll, David Lynch, and My Neighbor Totoro, but is singularly unsettling
  • The Factory

    Hiroko Oyamada, David Boyd

    E Book, 2019

    The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Japan
  • The Hole

    Hiroko Oyamada, David Boyd

    E Book, 2020

    Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, The Hole is by turns reminiscent of Lewis Carroll, David Lynch, and My Neighbor Totoro, but is singularly unsettling
  • Weasels in the Attic

    Hiroko Oyamada, David Boyd

    Paperback, 2022

    From the acclaimed author of The Hole and The Factory, a thrilling and mysterious novel that explores fertility, masculinity, and marriage in contemporary Japan
  • Weasels in the Attic

    Hiroko Oyamada, David Boyd

    E Book, 2022

    From the acclaimed author of The Hole and The Factory, a thrilling and mysterious novel that explores fertility, masculinity, and marriage in contemporary Japan