Polly Bar­ton

Polly Barton is a writer and translator. She has written two non-fiction books, Fifty Sounds and Porn: An Oral History, and translated numerous titles of Japanese literature and non-fiction. Her translations have been featured in Granta, Catapult, and The White Review, and in 2019 she won the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for her non-fiction debut, Fifty Sounds.

Books in order of publication:

Fifty Sounds (2021)

Porn: An Oral History (2023)

As translator:

Spring Garden, Tomoka Shibasaki

There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job, Kikuko Tsumura

So We Look to the Sky, Misumi Kubo

Where the Wild Ladies Are, Aoko Matsuda

Friendship for Grown-Ups, Naocola Yamazaki

Mikumari, Misumi Kubo

Butter, Asako Yuzuki