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Where the Wild Ladies Are by Matsuda Aoko, translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton
I spent my weekend inhaling this collection of interconnected short stories. Thoroughly enjoyed it, review coming soon ✨ (now that I'm off from Uni & I can read & write whatever I want)
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So excited to see this in the world!
HUGE congratulations Okka @mailbykite.bsky.social xx
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Have not posted on IG in yrs and am deleting it soon… but a dear friend has just informed me that none other than actor and stand-up Ronny Chieng has liked @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social’s IG post about my ANNAH, INFINITE.
16.06.2025 15:11 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
My review of Khairani Barokka's Annah, Infinite @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social emmalee1.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/a...
19.06.2025 10:31 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Cropped photo of a newspaper clipping, with a pink book cover saying ‘Annah, Infinite by Khairani Barokka’, below which is the text: ‘Khairani Barokka | Annah, Infinite | Tilted Axis Press, 19th August, £15.99, PB, 9781917126038 | Part-memoir, part-deconstruction of colonialism and art, of disability and ableism and the understanding of pain, Annah, Infinite blends lyrical prose, visual art and poetry in English and Javanese, circling Paul Gauguin’s painting Annah la Javanaise (c1893-94). Barokka explores selfhood and interconnectivity as a disabled Indonesian creative under the multiple dehumanising colonial gaze of the art world and medical gaze of the abled world. Vital, groundbreaking work.’
ANNAH, INFINITE is an Expert Pick in @thebookseller.com!
Thanks so much to excellent writer @pollyrowena.bsky.social, for including it in the Disability Focus. ‘Vital, groundbreaking work.’ ❤️🔥
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Out in July from @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social: "In 1966 Suriname, the Vanta family, an blend of Creole, Maroon, French, Indian, Indigenous, British, and Jewish heritage, is led by Grandma Bee, a proud, cigar-smoking matriarch. Bee is facing her final days and pondering what truly binds a family"
21.06.2025 15:54 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Such an inspiring event tonight with @jeremytiang.bsky.social launching his novel State of Emergency and translation of Delicious Hunger published by @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social. Thank you to Singapore Unbound for hosting!
27.06.2025 01:10 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
PRAISE ‘What is behind a portrait? What layers of meaning and bodily experiences are hidden or distorted when one is objectified by the artist? Khairani Barokka breaks down Annah la Javanaise by Paul Gauguin through a lens of colonialism, ableism, heteronormativity, and racism. The author sees pain written on Annah’s body and reflects on her pain journey, tracing years of torture and neglect. Annah, Infinite is a fascinating exploration of Barokka’s relationship with a brown person who was real and made into a painting.’— Alice Wong, author of Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life
Am so v grateful for the work and existence of inimitable, MacArthur Genius @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. #DisabilityJustice
Touched by her blurb for ANNAH, INFINITE.
Pre-orders mean a lot, pls do so from @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social site to get 10% off www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infini...
Five books: Babylon, Albion: A Personal History of Myth and Migration by Dalia Al-Dujaili, The City and the House by Natalia Ginzburg, translated from the Italian by Dick Davis, B. Proudew by Irena Dousková, translated from the Czech by Melvyn Clarke, The Brothers by Asko Sahlberg, translated from the Finnish by Emily Jeremiah and Fleur Jeremiah, and Where the Wild Ladies Are by Matsuda Aoko, translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton
Books I read in June.
Gathering the books for the picture, I realised it's all indie presses, which always leads to a great reading month ✨
@saqibooks.bsky.social @dauntbookspub.bsky.social #PeirenePress @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social #bookSky #BooksInTranslation
On a pink background with a dark red slash on the cover, book shows title, ‘Annah, Infinite by Khairani Barokka’, and ‘Tilted Axis Press’.
The book of my life (so far), ANNAH, INFINITE is an escape story.
A translation of a painting, in speculative nonfic, poetry & art. Took 14 yrs, &I’m inviting you to love it as I do. Aug 19 UK, Nov 11 US.
For reviews/i’views/events: tramy@tiltedaxispress.com
www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infini...
Thank you Haleh Agar for this pertienent review of Our City That Year by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell.
You can read Haleh's review, “Shree and Lubrin’s Fictions Offer Hope In Divisive Times” in the most recent edition of the Jhalek Review!
Link here substack.com/home/post/p-...
What books have shaped your understanding of trans resilience and revolution?”
REVATHI: A LIFE IN TRANS ACTIVISM is an essential read for #transhistoryweek.
Written by A. Revathi, tr by Nandini Murali
Enormous congrats to @shreedaisy.bsky.social on UK publication of OUR CITY THAT YEAR, her newest tr. of Geetanjali Shree, out now w @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social! ✨🌟✨💫
28.04.2025 08:28 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
nine black and white illustrations
back of a book featuring illustrations of two people
three postcards featuring illustrations
inside a book - featuring an illustration
My illustration work for @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social and @404ink.bsky.social 🎨 / Contact me at harichaart (at) gmail (dot) com for art (+Korean-English translation) enquiries!
02.05.2025 15:33 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A quiet storm of memory, loss, and ghosts — dd's Umbrella lingers like a whisper you can’t unhear.
In a beautiful review, @taylortaeyeon.bsky.social calls it “a ghost story about memory that lingers and grief that mutates.”
Read it via Singapore Unbound:
singaporeunbound.org/suspect-jour...
“Into this city the three of them came forth. Panicked. Determined to bring everything to the fore: the crime and the criminal; the wounded and the dead. All of it.” Read from Geetanjali Shree’s Our City That Year, translated by @shreedaisy.bsky.social.
11.04.2025 20:00 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1Read the first chapter of Our City that Year, my translation of Geetanjali Shree’s Hindi novel, in @literaryhub.bsky.social
11.04.2025 20:04 — 👍 22 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 4“When life itself had become a collage in which slivers and scraps floated about, sticking hither and thither as in the aftermath of an explosion, forming and deforming shapes, how could we escape the incomplete, the scattered, the broken?”
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From the 2022 International Booker Prize–winning duo comes OUR CITY THAT YEAR!
A searing, kaleidoscopic novel of memory, violence, and resistance. A haunting echo of 1992, and a story that still resonates today.
From @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social
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Geetanjali Shree attending the Miu Miu Literary Club, 2025 – “A Woman’s Education”.
Our City That Year translated by Daisy Rockwell is her next novel that will be published in English. Available for pre-orders now on our website, and out on April 22nd 2025.
#MiuMiuLiteraryClub
A pink book, entitled ‘On a Woman’s Madness’, shown against a background of a library space.
We had our last session of the Translation Table last night and we are so thankful for what has been a wonderful community of readers, writers, and translators! 💫
Our final book of the series was ‘On a Woman’s Madness’, by Astrid Roemer and translated by Lucy Scott.
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Can't get enough Astrid Roemer? Read another story of hers (translated from Dutch by Laura Vroomen) on WWB: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
21.03.2025 20:17 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0ANNAH, INFINITE is now coming out in August in the UK, November in the US w @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social.
Waited 14 yrs to tell these stories of colonial visual cultures creating disbelief of ill+disabled brown ppl, thru cruel translation, & how we escape. Can’t wait for you to meet the Annahs. 🤍
Just gave a lecture, ‘Sanctuary as Process’, for graduate students at Birmingham College of Art. 🙏🏼
Thank you to Dr Mona Casey for inviting me, esp for her passion for my Annah, Infinite art project—14 yrs long, & titular book coming Aug 19 @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social.
It meant the world to hear.
Here’s what I read in March feat @thebookerprizes.bsky.social @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social @serpents-tail.bsky.social @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social
31.03.2025 07:41 — 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0
Given the number of (white) translators I've seen over the past few days saying they like to use genAI to "edit" the work of non-native speakers (for appalling reasons), it feels like a good time to once again recommend Violent Phenomena (published by @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social).
02.04.2025 23:15 — 👍 29 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 0
A friend urged me to read @grantamag.bsky.social Human Acts. She said it reminded her of @cbeditions.bsky.social Spent Light. They're very different, but perhaps share an author's attempt to meditate on violence. I'm appreciating Han Kang & Deborah Smith a lot. Bravo @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social
03.04.2025 14:21 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"At a moment when nationalism and isolationism are rising in both Europe and the United States, the window that literature can provide into other cultures feels essential"
An excellent article here featuring @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social about #books in #translation.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/b...
