David Boyd
David Boyd teaches translation at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies. He won the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature in 2018 for Slow Boat by Hideo Furukawa, in 2022 for The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada, and in 2024 for Takaoka’s Travels by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa
David Boyd
David Boyd teaches translation at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies. He won the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature in 2018 for Slow Boat by Hideo Furukawa, in 2022 for The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada, and in 2024 for Takaoka’s Travels by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa
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
Garden
Hiroko Oyamada, David Boyd, Lucy North
Paperback, 2026
From the author of The Hole andThe Factory, a collection of strange and wonderful tales of humans, animals, and plants


