Toh EnJoe

Hometown: Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Current Residence: Osaka, Japan

He won the Akutagawa Prize (widely considered Japan's most prestigious literary award) in 2011 for his novel Doukeshi no Chou.

He made his debut as a writer with 2007's Self-Reference ENGINE, which went on to win a special citation at the Phillip K. Dick Awards. His writings have won many awards: Harlequin's Butterfly won the Akutagawa Prize, The Empire of Corpses (co-written with Project Itoh) won the Nihon SF Taisho Special Award, Mojika won the Kawabata Vasunari Prize for Literature and Nihon SF Taisho Prize, and Code Buddha won the Yomiur Prize for Literature. He handled scripts and SF advising on the animated series Godzilla Singular Point, and he also works as a translator. Some of his translations include Charles Yu's How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan (into Japanese), and Ugetsu Monogatari (into modern Japanese).

Twitter: @EnJoeToh