Polly Barton

Fifty Sounds

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A paean to the transformative powers of language-learning from the winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9781913097509
• ISBN-10: 1913097501
• Artikelnr.: 59939689

Autorenporträt

Polly Barton is a translator of Japanese literature and non-fiction. Born in 1984, and raised in west London, she studied philosophy at Cambridge before travelling with the JET Programme to teach English in Sado Island, Japan. Her translations include Spring Garden by Tomoka Shibasaki (Pushkin Press, 2017) and Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda (Tilted Axis Press, 2020). She won the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for Fifty Sounds.