Polly Barton

Polly Barton is a writer and literary translator from the Japanese. Her translations include Butter by Asako Yuzuki, Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa, Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda and There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura. She has published two works of non-fiction, Fifty Sounds (Fitzcarraldo, 2021), which won the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, and Porn: An Oral History (Fitzcarraldo, 2023). What Am I A Deer? (Fitzcarraldo, 2026) is her debut novel.

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