Toh EnJoe

Toh EnJoe (Japanese: 円城 塔, Hepburn: Enjō Tō, pen name, also written as EnJoeToh) (born September 15, 1972) is a Japanese author. Most of his works are literary fiction or speculative fiction.

Biography

EnJoe was born on 1972 in

His literary fiction work is often dense with allusions. Numerous annotations were added to "Uyūshitan" when it was published in book form in 2009, with none appearing in its initial magazine publication. EnJoe's science fiction works often employ mathematical motifs. The narrator of "Boy's Surface" (2007) is a morphism^{[further explanation needed]}, and the title is a reference to a geometrical notion. In "Moonshine" (2009), natural numbers are sentient through a savant's mind's eye in a field of the monster group.

Awards

Japanese

• 2010: Noma Prize for New Writers for Uyūshitan
• 2012: Akutagawa Prize for "Dōkeshi no chō (Harlequin's Butterfly)"
• 2012:
  Nihon SF Taisho Special Award for Shisha no teikoku (The Empire of Corpses) (with Project Itoh
  )
• 2013: Seiun Award Japanese Long Form for Shisha no teikoku (with Project Itoh)
• 2017: Kawabata Yasunari Prize for Literature [ja] for "Mojika"
• 2018:
  Nihon SF Taisho
  for Mojika

US

• 2014: Philip K. Dick Award Special Citation for Self-Reference ENGINE

Works

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (March 2014)

Translated into English

English translations (book length)

• Self-Reference ENGINE (Terry Gallagher (trans.), Haikasoru/VIZ Media, 2013); translation of Self-Reference ENGINE (2007, 2010)

Short fiction in English translation

• "Freud" (excerpt from Self-Reference ENGINE) (Speculative Japan 2, Kurodahan Press, 2011)
• "Silverpoint" (Japan Earthquake Charity Literature, Waseda Bungaku, 2011)
• "Meditations on Green" (Monkey Business, Volume 2, A Public Space, 2012)
• "Endoastronomy" (The Future Is Japanese, Haikasoru/VIZ Media, 2012)
• "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Galactic Empire" (Words Without Borders, July 2012 [1])
• "Harlequin's Butterfly" (Excerpt) (
  Asymptote, Jan 2013 [2]
  )
• "Time in "Time"" (essay) (Monkey Business, Volume 3, A Public Space, 2013)
• "Printable" (Granta, Issue 127, Granta Publications, 2014)
• "A Record of My Grandmother" (Monkey Business, Volume 4, A Public Space, 2014)
• "List, Combination, Recursion" (essay) (The Battle Royale Slam Book, Haikasoru/VIZ Media, 2014)
• "Time Together" (2014 PEN World Voices Online Anthology, PEN American Center, 2014) [3]
• "Three Twitter Stories" (2014 PEN World Voices Online Anthology, PEN American Center, 2014) [4]
• "First Sentence" (essay) (Granta Online Edition, 7 May 2014, Granta Publications, 2014) [5]
• "Twelve Twitter Stories" (Monkey Business, Volume 5, A Public Space, 2015)
• "The Squirrel Awakes" (Kindle Single, 2015)
• "Overdrive" (Saiensu Fikushon 2016, Haikasoru/VIZ Media, 2016)
• "Shuffle Drive" (Monkey Business, Volume 7, A Public Space, 2017)
• "Shadow.net" (The Ghost in the Shell: Five New Short Stories, Vertical/Media Tie In, 2017)

Scripts

• "I'm Never Remembering You, Baby" (Space Dandy episode 11, 2014) – writer
• "An Other-Dimensional Tale, Baby" (Space Dandy episode 24, 2014) – writer, guest character design
• Godzilla Singular Point (2021) – writer, series composition

Reception

An interviewer in the literary journal