圆城塔

圆城塔（日语：円城 塔，1972年9月15日—）是一名日本科幻小说家，真名未公开，笔名取自金子邦彦的短篇小说《进化史观》，妻子是位专写恐怖小说的作家田边青蛙。

生平

圆城塔毕业于东北大学理学院物理系，后获得东京大学总合文化研究科的博士学位。毕业后曾经任职网络公司，2008年起专职写作。

2006年曾以处女作《Self Reference ENGINE》参加小松左京赏落选，但作品获得早川书房的科幻小说编集塩泽快浩认可并出版，并因而认识同期推出小说《虐杀器官》的科幻小说家伊藤计划，两人成为好友。在伊藤离世后，圆城塔参考他的创作笔记续写伊藤未完成的遗作《尸者的帝国》。

获得奖项

2007年，凭《棒球评审员》获得第104届文学界新人奖，同时入围第137届芥川奖。

2010年，凭《乌有此谭》获得第32届野间文艺新人奖。

2012年，第三度入围芥川奖的圆城，终于凭《滑稽师之蝶》摘取到146届芥川奖。同年，他与伊藤计划合著的《尸者的帝国》获得33回日本SF大赏特别赏。

2013年，他与伊藤计划合著的《尸者的帝国》获得第44回星云赏日本长编小说部门奖。

2014年，圆城凭短篇小说《Self Reference ENGINE》的英译本，获得菲利普·K·迪克纪念奖特别奖，是继已故作家伊藤计划在2011年获奖之后第二名获得该奖的日本作家。

2017年，凭《文字涡》获得第43届川端康成文学奖。

2019年，凭《文字涡》获得第39届日本SF大奖。

2025年，凭《CODE BUDDHA 机器佛教史缘起》获得第76届读卖文学奖（小说奖）。

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

Biography

EnJoe was born on 1972 in Sapporo. 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, 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.

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, 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. It was published in August 2012 and received the Special Award of Nihon SF Taisho.

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 for "Mojika"

2018: Nihon SF Taisho for Mojika

US

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

Works

English translations (book length)

Self-Reference ENGINE (trans. Terry Gallagher), Haikasoru/VIZ Media, 2013

Harlequin Butterfly (trans. David Boyd), Pushkin, 2024

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)

"Harlequin's Butterfly" (Excerpt) (Asymptote, Jan 2013)

"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)

"Three Twitter Stories" (2014 PEN World Voices Online Anthology, PEN American Center, 2014)

"First Sentence" (essay) (Granta Online Edition, 7 May 2014, Granta Publications, 2014)

"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)