It is Independent Bookshop Week over the 17-24th of June! We are celebrating by joining forces with a celebrated independent publisher and partnering with Tilted Axis Press. Tilted Axis Press publishes mainly work by Asian and African writers, translated into a variety of Englishes.

We will be joined by Polly Barton (a translator of Japanese literature and non-fiction and author of Fifty Sounds and Porn: An Oral History) and Kavita Bhanot (A translator and editor). They will be focusing on discussing translation, focusing particularly upon Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation, and translating Where the Wild Ladies Are by Matsuda Aoko (an award-winning Japanese writer) along with sharing lists with titles such as The End of August, the forthcoming publication from Yu Miri (Tokyo Ueno Station). Both speakers are excellent.

Listen to Polly Barton on the fab Tender Buttons podcast for an insight into her work: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tender-buttons/id1503030740

Check out Kavita's inspiring TED Talk on self-expression and mythologising literature too: https://youtu.be/d7uum94BUVQ

And her podcast on Violent Phenomena here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/kavita-bhanot-and-jeremy-tiang-violent-phenomena-21-essays-on-translation-tilted-axis-press-2022

Tickets are £5.00

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