Hiroko Oyamada is a Japanese writer born in Hiroshima in 1983. Her unique writing style of alternating between reality and fantasy touches upon important modern keywords such as identity, class and individual-oriented society in everyday life. She made her debut with The Factory, winning the 42nd Shincho Prize for New Writers in 2010. The Factory was nominated for the 26th Mishima Yukio Prize and won the 30th Oda Sakunosuke Prize and 4th Hiroshima Hon Grand Prize for novel. The selection of her short stories, The Hole, was published in South Korea in 2017.