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    Polly Barton

    Polly Barton is a translator of Japanese literature and nonfiction. She studied philosophy at the University of Cambridge before travelling with the JET Programme to teach English in Sado Island, Japan. She won the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for Fifty Sounds.

    Polly Barton

    Polly Barton is a translator of Japanese literature and nonfiction. She studied philosophy at the University of Cambridge before travelling with the JET Programme to teach English in Sado Island, Japan. She won the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for Fifty Sounds.

    Books by Polly Barton

    • Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing

      Polly Barton

      Hardback, 2022

      For anyone who has ever yearned to master a new language, Fifty Sounds is a visionary personal account and an indispensable resource for learning to think beyond your mother tongue.

    • Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing

      Polly Barton

      E Book, 2022

      For anyone who has ever yearned to master a new language, Fifty Sounds is a visionary personal account and an indispensable resource for learning to think beyond your mother tongue.

    • Mild Vertigo

      Mieko Kanai, Polly Barton, Kate Zambreno

      Paperback, 2023

      In this intoxicating stream-of-consciousness novel, Mieko Kanai tackles the existential traps of motherhood, marriage, and domestic captivity

    • Mild Vertigo

      Mieko Kanai, Polly Barton, Kate Zambreno

      E Book

      In this intoxicating stream-of-consciousness novel, Mieko Kanai tackles the existential traps of motherhood, marriage, and domestic captivity

    • The Place of Shells

      Mai Ishizawa, Polly Barton

      Paperback, 2025

      Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, a masterful novel about loss and memory in the aftermath of a horrifying ecological disaster

    • The Place of Shells

      Mai Ishizawa, Polly Barton

      E Book

      Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, a masterful novel about loss and memory in the aftermath of a horrifying ecological disaster

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