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David Boyd

Contributor

David Boyd

United States

David Boyd is assistant professor of Japanese at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has translated novels and stories by Hiroko Oyamada, Masatsugu Ono, and Toh EnJoe, among others. His translation of Hideo Furukawa’s Slow Boat (Pushkin Press, 2017) won the 2017/2018 Japan-US Friendship Commission (JUSFC) Prize for the translation of Japanese literature. With Sam Bett, he is cotranslating the novels of Mieko Kawakami for Europa Editions.

Articles by David Boyd

What We Lost: COVID-19 Beyond the Numbers

By Hideo Furukawa & Kathleen McCaul Moura

What has the coronavirus taken from us? We need to answer this in a way that isn’t expressed through numbers.

Translated from Japanese by David Boyd

The Sixth Victim

By Shōko Egawa

It all began about the time that the men and women were finishing their first drinks.

Translated from Japanese by David Boyd

A Speedboat to China—From Murakami to Furukawa

David Boyd’s translation of Hideo Furukawa’s novella Slow Boat was published in 2017 by Pushkin Press. Here he discusses the book’s literary and musical influences.Hideo Furukawa named…

Fruit

By Hideo Furukawa

We simply couldn’t tolerate rogue fruit infiltrating Tokyo and corrupting public morals.

Translated from Japanese by David Boyd

Underground City

“Please kill me. Kill me, like you killed your wife.”

Translated from Japanese by David Boyd