Machida Kou Author

Machida Kou was born in Osaka Prefecture in 1962. In 1997, he received the Bunkamura Doumago Literary Prize and the Noma Literary New Artist Award for Kussun Daikoku. In 2000, he won the Akutagawa Prize for Kiregire, and, in 2001, he received the Sakutarō Hagiwara Prize for Doma no Shijūkudaki. In 2005, he won the Jun’ichirō Tanizaki Prize for Kokuhaku, and in 2008 was awarded the Noma Literary Prize for Yadoya Meguri. Daniel Joseph is a translator, editor, and anthologist of Japanese fiction. He holds an MA in Medieval Japanese Literature from Harvard University, and has published translations of works by an eclectic assortment of Japanese writers and musicians including Kou Machida (Inpatient Press), Izumi Suzuki (Verso Books), and Kazuki Tomokawa (Blank Forms Editions). Shorter translations and essays have appeared in Granta, Epiphany, and ArtReview, among others. He is senior editor at Kodansha USA in New York, and is compiling and editing the forthcoming Penguin Book of Japanese Science Fiction for Penguin Classics in the UK.