Tomoko Yoshida
Tomoko Yoshida (born 1934 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka) is a cornerstone of Japanese avant-garde literature. In 1963, she founded the magazine Gomu. Her awards include the Akutagawa Prize, the Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize, and the Women's Literature Prize.
2026
English edition
ISOLARII
forthcoming
Dunderhead is the book-length English-language debut of Tomoko Yoshida, age 92: three clinically precise stories of scarcity, pride, and resentment rooted in the afterlife of empire. Beneath the starkness of her world, there is a deep empathy for the "dunderheads" who carry it.
