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Author Description Polly Barton is a writer and Japanese translator based in Bristol. In 2019, she won the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, and her debut book <i> <b>Fifty Sounds</b> </i>, a personal dictionary of the Japanese language, was published in the UK by Fitzcarraldo Editions in April 2021. In 2022, <i> <b>Fifty Sounds</b> </i> was shortlisted for the 2022 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year.<br /><br />Her translations have featured in <i>Granta, Catapult, The White Review</i> and <i>Words Without Borders</i> and her full length translations include <i> <b>Spring Garden</b> </i> by Tomoka Shibasaki (Pushkin Press), <i> <b>Where the Wild Ladies Are</b> </i> by Aoko Matsuda (Tilted Axis Press/Soft Skull), which was shortlisted for the Ray Bradbury Prize, and <i> <b>There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job</b> </i> by Kikuko Tsumura (Bloomsbury).<br /><br />Her new book, <i> <b>Porn: An Oral History</b> </i>, will be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) in March 2023 and La Nave di Teseo (Italy).

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