Hiroko Oyamada

Hiroko Oyamada is a Japanese writer born in 1983 and best known for the novel The Factory, in which three workers at a vast, enigmatic factory find their odd jobs slowly taking over their lives. Her prizes include the Shincho Prize for New Writers, the Oda Sakunosuke Prize and the Akutagawa Prize. Her other book, Weasels in the Attic, is also contemporary fiction with a touch of the magical.