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{{nihongo|'''Toh EnJoe'''|円城 塔|Enjō Tō|pen name, also written as '''EnJoeToh'''|lead=yes}} (born September 15, 1972) is a Japanese author. Most of his works are [[literary fiction]] or [[speculative fiction]].


==Biography==
Born in 1972 in [[Sapporo]].<ref name=jps2008>{{cite journal |url=http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110006825822/en/ |title=ポスドクからポストポスドクへ(<シリーズ>"ポスドク"問題 その12) |language=Japanese |trans_title=PD2PPD (Network Pages for Professional Development of Physicists) |first=Toh |last=Enjoe |journal=Butsuri |issn=0029-0181 |year=2008 |volume=63 |issue=7 |pages=564–566}}</ref><ref name=japantimes20120119>{{cite news |url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120119b5.html |title=Tanaka, Enjo win Akutagawa award; Hamuro gets Naoki |newspaper=The Japan Times |date=January 19, 2012 |agency=Kyodo |accessdate=May 22, 2012}}</ref> He graduated from the physics department of [[Tohoku University]], then went on to the graduate school at [[University of Tokyo]] and received Ph.D. for a mathematical physical study on the natural languages. He worked as a [[post-doc]] researcher at several research institutes for seven years, then abandoned the academic career in 2007<ref name=jps2008 /> and found a programmer job at a software firm (resigns in 2008 to become a full-time writer).
EnJoe was born on 1972 in [[Sapporo]].<ref name=jps2008>{{cite journal |url=http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110006825822/en/ |script-title=ja:ポスドクからポストポスドクへ(<シリーズ>"ポスドク"問題 その12) |language=Japanese |trans-title=PD2PPD (Network Pages for Professional Development of Physicists) |first=Toh |last=Enjoe |journal=Butsuri |issn=0029-0181 |year=2008 |volume=63 |issue=7 |pages=564–566}}</ref><ref name=japantimes20120119>{{cite news |url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120119b5.html |title=Tanaka, Enjo win Akutagawa award; Hamuro gets Naoki |newspaper=The Japan Times |date=January 19, 2012 |agency=Kyodo |access-date=May 22, 2012}}</ref> He graduated from the physics department of [[Tohoku University]], then went on to the graduate school at [[University of Tokyo]] and received Ph.D. for a mathematical physical study on the natural languages. He worked as a [[post-doc]] researcher at several research institutes for seven years, then abandoned the academic career in 2007<ref name=jps2008 /> and found a job at a software firm, which he left in 2008 to become a full-time writer.


In 2006, he submitted ''Self-Reference ENGINE'' to a science-fiction novel contest [[Komatsu Sakyō Award]]. Although it did not win the award (none did in this year), it was published from [[Hayakawa Shobō]] in 2007. At almost same time, his short story "Obu za bēsbōru" ("Of The Baseball") won the contest of literary magazine ''[[Bungakukai]]'', which became his debut in literary fiction.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Future Is Japanese |chapter=Contributors |publisher=Viz Media |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-4215-4223-2}}</ref>
In 2006, he submitted his science fiction novel ''Self-Reference ENGINE'', made up of a number of related short works, to be considered for the Komatsu Sakyō Award. It was a finalist. It was published the following year by [[Hayakawa Shobō]]. In the same year, his short story "Obu za bēsbōru" ("Of the Baseball") won the contest of literary magazine ''[[Bungakukai]]'', which became his debut in literary fiction.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Future Is Japanese |chapter=Contributors |publisher=Viz Media |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-4215-4223-2}}</ref>


His literary fictions are often dense with [[allusion]]s. Labyrinthine annotations were added to "Uyūshitan" when it was published in book form in 2009, where there were none when published initially in literary magazine.
His literary fiction work is often dense with [[allusion]]s. 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]]{{Explain|date=July 2022}}, and the title is a reference to [[Boy's surface|a geometrical notion]]. In "Moonshine" (2009), natural numbers are sentient through a [[savant syndrome|savant]]'s mind's eye in a field of the [[monster group]].
Often, his science fiction works take motif from mathematics. The narrator of "Boy's Surface" (2007) is a [[morphism]], and the title is a reference to [[Boy's surface|a geometrical notion]]. In "Moonshine" (2009), natural numbers are sentient through a [[savant syndrome|savant]]'s mind's eye in a field of the [[monster group]].
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[[Project Itoh]]'s ''[[Gyakusatsu kikan|Genocidal Organ]]'' was also a finalist of Komatsu Sakyō Award contest and published from Hayakawa Shobō in 2007, along with Enjoe's ''Self-Reference ENGINE''. Since then they often appeared together at science fiction conventions and interviews, and collaborated in a few works, until Itoh's death of cancer in 2009. At the press conference after the announcement of Enjoe's [[Akutagawa Prize]] in January 2012, he revealed the plan to complete Itoh's unfinished novel ''Shisha no teikoku''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www9.nhk.or.jp/kabun-blog/800/106745.html |title=全文掲載：芥川賞受賞会見　円城塔さん |language=Japanese |work=NHK Kabun Blog |publisher=NHK Science & Culture |date=January 18, 2012 |accessdate=May 20, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite url |url=http://book.asahi.com/booknews/update/2012011800003.html |title=円城塔さん「奇妙な小説書いていく」　芥川賞受賞会見 |language=Japanese |publisher=The Asahi Shimbun |date=January 18, 2012 |accessdate=July 2, 2012}}</ref> It was published in August 2012, and received the Special Award of [[Nihon SF Taisho]].
[[Project Itoh]]'s ''[[Gyakusatsu kikan|Genocidal Organ]]'' was also a finalist of Komatsu Sakyō Award contest. It was published from Hayakawa Shobō in 2007, along with Enjoe's ''Self-Reference ENGINE''. Subsequently, they often appeared together at [[science fiction convention]]s and conducting interviews, and collaborated in a few works. Itoh died of cancer in 2009. At the press conference after the announcement of Enjoe's [[Akutagawa Prize]] in January 2012, he revealed the plan to complete Itoh's unfinished novel ''Shisha no teikoku''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www9.nhk.or.jp/kabun-blog/800/106745.html |script-title=ja:全文掲載：芥川賞受賞会見 円城塔さん |language=Japanese |work=NHK Kabun Blog |publisher=NHK Science & Culture |date=January 18, 2012 |access-date=May 20, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508190034/http://www9.nhk.or.jp/kabun-blog/800/106745.html |archive-date=May 8, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://book.asahi.com/booknews/update/2012011800003.html |title=円城塔さん「奇妙な小説書いていく」 芥川賞受賞会見 |language=Japanese |newspaper=The Asahi Shimbun |date=January 18, 2012 |access-date=July 2, 2012}}</ref> It was published in August 2012 and received the Special Award of [[Nihon SF Taisho]].


== Awards ==
== Awards ==
===Japanese===
* 2010: [[Noma Literary Prize|Noma Prize for New Writers]] for ''Uyūshitan''
* 2010: [[Noma Literary Prize|Noma Prize for New Writers]] for ''Uyūshitan''
* 2012: [[Akutagawa Prize]] for "Dōkeshi no chō (Harlequin's Butterfly)"
* 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]])
* 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)
* 2013: [[Seiun Award]] Japanese Long Form for ''Shisha no teikoku'' (with Project Itoh)
* 2017: {{ill|Kawabata Yasunari Prize for Literature|ja|川端康成文学賞}} for "Mojika"
* 2018: [[Nihon SF Taisho]] for ''Mojika''

===US===
* 2014: [[Philip K. Dick Award]] Special Citation for ''Self-Reference ENGINE''
* 2014: [[Philip K. Dick Award]] Special Citation for ''Self-Reference ENGINE''


== Works ==
== Works ==
{{incomplete list|date=March 2014}}
{{expand list|date=March 2014}}

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;English translations
=== Translated into English ===
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====English translations (book length)====
* ''Self-Reference ENGINE'' (Terry Gallagher (trans.), Haikasoru/VIZ Media, 2013); translation of ''Self-Reference ENGINE'' (2007, 2010)
* ''Self-Reference ENGINE'' (Terry Gallagher (trans.), Haikasoru/VIZ Media, 2013); translation of ''Self-Reference ENGINE'' (2007, 2010)


====Short fiction in English translation====
;English translations, short form
* "Freud" (excerpt from ''Self-Reference ENGINE'') (''Speculative Japan 2'', Kurodahan Press, 2011)
* "Freud" (excerpt from ''Self-Reference ENGINE'') (''Speculative Japan 2'', Kurodahan Press, 2011)
* "Silverpoint" (''Japan Earthquake Charity Literature'', Waseda Bungaku, 2011)
* "Silverpoint" (''Japan Earthquake Charity Literature'', Waseda Bungaku, 2011)
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* "Endoastronomy" (''The Future Is Japanese'', Haikasoru/VIZ Media, 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 [http://wordswithoutborders.org/issue/july-2012])
* "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Galactic Empire" (''Words Without Borders'', July 2012 [http://wordswithoutborders.org/issue/july-2012])
* "Harlequin's Butterfly" (Excerpt) (''ASYMPTOTE'', Jan 2013 [http://www.asymptotejournal.com/article.php?cat=Fiction&id=38&curr_index=2&curPage=current])
* "Harlequin's Butterfly" (Excerpt) (''[[Asymptote (journal)|Asymptote]]'', Jan 2013 [http://www.asymptotejournal.com/article.php?cat=Fiction&id=38&curr_index=2&curPage=current])
* "Time in "Time"" (essay) (''Monkey Business'', Volume 3, A Public Space, 2013)
* "Time in "Time"" (essay) (''Monkey Business'', Volume 3, A Public Space, 2013)
* "Printable" (''Granta'', Issue 127, Granta Publications, 2014)
* "Printable" (''Granta'', Issue 127, Granta Publications, 2014)
* "A Record of My Grandmother" (''Monkey Business'', Volume 4, A Public Space, 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)
* "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) [http://worldvoices.pen.org/fiction/time-together]
* "Time Together" (''2014 PEN World Voices Online Anthology'', PEN American Center, 2014) [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429062721/http://worldvoices.pen.org/fiction/time-together]
* "Three Twitter Stories" (''2014 PEN World Voices Online Anthology'', PEN American Center, 2014) [http://worldvoices.pen.org/flash/three-twitter-stories]
* "Three Twitter Stories" (''2014 PEN World Voices Online Anthology'', PEN American Center, 2014) [http://worldvoices.pen.org/flash/three-twitter-stories]
* "First Sentence" (essay) (''Granta Online Edition'', 7 May 2014, Granta Publications, 2014) [http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/First-Sentence-Toh-EnJoe]
* "First Sentence" (essay) (''Granta Online Edition'', 7 May 2014, Granta Publications, 2014) [http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/First-Sentence-Toh-EnJoe]
* "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===
;Script
* "I'm Never Remembering You, Baby" (''[[Space Dandy]]'', episode 11, Bones, 2014)
* "I'm Never Remembering You, Baby" (''[[Space Dandy]]'' episode 11, 2014) – writer
* "An Other-Dimensional Tale, Baby" (''Space Dandy'', episode 24, Bones, 2014) (Also guest character design)
* "An Other-Dimensional Tale, Baby" (''Space Dandy'' episode 24, 2014) – writer, guest character design
* ''[[Godzilla Singular Point]]'' (2021) – writer, series composition


== Reception ==
== Reception ==
An interviewer in the literary journal ''Asymptote'' wrote, "Toh EnJoe's stories are known for their scientific lucidity and literary impenetrability. His language and his writing style, however, belie his background as a physicist: topics woven into his stories include science, but also linguistics, literary theory, and philosophical approaches to the imagination. His complicated narrative structures are the subject of heated discussions and have even evoked harsh reviews calling his work 'indigestible', 'sleep-inducing,' and 'reader-unfriendly'."<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.asymptotejournal.com/article.php?cat=Interview&id=16&curr_index=1 |author= Okamoto, Sayuri |date= 2013 |title= An interview with Toh EnJoe |publisher= ''Asymptote'' |accessdate= May 27, 2013}}</ref>
An interviewer in the literary journal ''[[Asymptote (journal)|Asymptote]]'' wrote, "Toh EnJoe's stories are known for their scientific lucidity and literary impenetrability. His language and his writing style, however, belie his background as a physicist: topics woven into his stories include science, but also linguistics, literary theory, and philosophical approaches to the imagination. His complicated narrative structures are the subject of heated discussions and have even evoked harsh reviews calling his work 'indigestible', 'sleep-inducing,' and 'reader-unfriendly'."<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.asymptotejournal.com/article.php?cat=Interview&id=16&curr_index=1 |author= Okamoto, Sayuri |date= 2013 |title= An interview with Toh EnJoe |publisher= [[Asymptote (journal)|Asymptote]] |access-date= May 27, 2013}}</ref>


== Notes ==
== References ==
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==Additional reading==
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* [http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/09/interview-toh-enjoe-author-of-self-reference-engine/ INTERVIEW: Toh EnJoe, Author of Self-Reference ENGINE] (SF Signal)


== External links ==
== External links ==
* {{twitter|EnJoeToh|@EnJoeToh}}
* {{twitter|EnJoeToh|@EnJoeToh}}
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* [http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/authors/item/618-toh-enjoe J'Lit | Authors : Toh EnJoe | Books from Japan]
* {{twitter|EnJoe140|@EnJoe140}}
* {{isfdb name|id=174009|name=Toh EnJoe}}
* {{Tumblr|enjoetoh|EnJoeToh}}

* [http://self-reference.engine.sub.jp/ Blog] {{ja icon}}
{{Akutagawa Prize winners}}
* [http://www.asymptotejournal.com/article.php?cat=Interview&id=16&curr_index=1 Interview by Sayuri Okamoto] (''ASYMPTOTE'', Jan 2013)
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* [http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/09/interview-toh-enjoe-author-of-self-reference-engine/ INTERVIEW: Toh EnJoe, Author of Self-Reference ENGINE] (SF Signal)
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* [http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/authors/item/618-toh-enjoe J'Lit | Authors : Toh EnJoe | Books from Japan] {{en icon}}
** [http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/sample-translation/the-empire-of-corpses Excerpt] and [http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/publications/item/1330-empire-of-corpses synopsis] of ''The Empire of Corpses''


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Latest revision as of 22:14, 30 January 2024

Toh EnJoe
Native name
円城 塔
Born (1972-09-15) September 15, 1972 (age 51)
Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
OccupationAuthor
LanguageJapanese
Alma mater
Genres
Years active2008-present
Notable worksSelf-Reference ENGINE (2007)
Notable awards

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[edit]

EnJoe was born on 1972 in Sapporo.[1][2] He graduated from the physics department of Tohoku University, then went on to the graduate school at University of Tokyo and received Ph.D. for a mathematical physical study on the natural languages. He worked as a post-doc researcher at several research institutes for seven years, then abandoned the academic career in 2007[1] and found a job at a software firm, which he left in 2008 to become a full-time writer.

In 2006, he submitted his science fiction novel Self-Reference ENGINE, made up of a number of related short works, to be considered for the Komatsu Sakyō Award. It was a finalist. It was published the following year by Hayakawa Shobō. In the same year, his short story "Obu za bēsbōru" ("Of the Baseball") won the contest of literary magazine Bungakukai, which became his debut in literary fiction.[3]

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.

Project Itoh's Genocidal Organ was also a finalist of Komatsu Sakyō Award contest. It was published from Hayakawa Shobō in 2007, along with Enjoe's Self-Reference ENGINE. Subsequently, they often appeared together at science fiction conventions and conducting interviews, and collaborated in a few works. Itoh died of cancer in 2009. At the press conference after the announcement of Enjoe's Akutagawa Prize in January 2012, he revealed the plan to complete Itoh's unfinished novel Shisha no teikoku.[4][5] It was published in August 2012 and received the Special Award of Nihon SF Taisho.

Awards[edit]

Japanese[edit]

US[edit]

Works[edit]

Translated into English[edit]

English translations (book length)[edit]

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

Short fiction in English translation[edit]

  • "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[edit]

  • "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[edit]

An interviewer in the literary journal Asymptote wrote, "Toh EnJoe's stories are known for their scientific lucidity and literary impenetrability. His language and his writing style, however, belie his background as a physicist: topics woven into his stories include science, but also linguistics, literary theory, and philosophical approaches to the imagination. His complicated narrative structures are the subject of heated discussions and have even evoked harsh reviews calling his work 'indigestible', 'sleep-inducing,' and 'reader-unfriendly'."[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Enjoe, Toh (2008). ポスドクからポストポスドクへ(<シリーズ>"ポスドク"問題 その12) [PD2PPD (Network Pages for Professional Development of Physicists)]. Butsuri (in Japanese). 63 (7): 564–566. ISSN 0029-0181.
  2. ^ "Tanaka, Enjo win Akutagawa award; Hamuro gets Naoki". The Japan Times. Kyodo. January 19, 2012. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
  3. ^ "Contributors". The Future Is Japanese. Viz Media. 2012. ISBN 978-1-4215-4223-2.
  4. ^ 全文掲載：芥川賞受賞会見 円城塔さん. NHK Kabun Blog (in Japanese). NHK Science & Culture. January 18, 2012. Archived from the original on May 8, 2012. Retrieved May 20, 2012.
  5. ^ "円城塔さん「奇妙な小説書いていく」 芥川賞受賞会見". The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). January 18, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2012.
  6. ^ Okamoto, Sayuri (2013). "An interview with Toh EnJoe". Asymptote. Retrieved May 27, 2013.

Additional reading[edit]

External links[edit]

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