The Guest Cat made the New York Times best-seller list in the same year it was published in English, 2014[2] and has reached international acclaim.
[4] In 1985, Hiraide spent three months at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, as poet in residence.
[5] From 1998 to 1999 Hiraide was a visiting scholar at the Berlin Free University, his time there became the basis of a book later published in 2002.
[7] His works available in English translation include, Postcards to Donald Evans (2003), For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut (2008) and The Guest Cat (2014).
Postcards to Donald Evans is also featured as a part of a perpetual online exhibit on tumblr, ⌥ + ␣ + esc [sic].