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Colourful chapbooks from Strangers Press against a Tote bag on a wooden background.
๐August slipped away into a moment in time.. but our chapbooks are forever!
Why not spend the rest of this Summer reading these coming-of-age-sexual-awakening-identity-questioning short stories from our Lithuanian mini-series KลชNAI
Visit our website: www.strangers.press/k%C5%ABnai
๐Indie bookshop lovers โ if you want to get your
hands on these, ask your local bookseller to order them
in for you so you can get them for publication day! And
feel free to tag your favourite indie below to help us
spread the word about this amazing new seriesโฆ
INDIE PRESSES <3 INDIE BOOKSHOPS!
Pre-orders make a big difference to us, so if you think
your customers will like them, pop them on order! They
look beautiful displayed face-out as a set and are
available from Gardners at a 45% discount (if you want
more info, please DM us).
๐จCALLING ALL INDIE BOOKSHOPS
(and indie bookshop lovers!)๐จ
๐Weโve got a new series coming out in August โ
specifically 5 chapbooks translated from Japanese.
Expect strange, beautiful, witty stories, all packaged up
in stunning cover designs from Studio Grrr.
Book cover for 'Then Why Ask Me to Come?' by Wataya Risa, translated by Yuki Tejima. The cover shows the title in bubble letters on a bright blue background and a magnifying glass with a face.
COMING SOON... ๐
๐ฉตThen Why Ask Me to Come? by Wataya Risa, tr.
Yuki Tejima๐ฉต
๐This is the FINAL CHAPBOOK in our KANATA series.
Visit this link to join our mailing list and be the
first to hear more - less than a month to go now until
publication! www.strangers.press/about
COMING SOON... ๐
๐ธKamachi Pictures by Takiguchi Yusho, tr. Jesse Kirkwood
๐This chapbook is part of KANATA, our upcoming
series of chapbooks from Japan!
Join our newsletter and be the first to hear more: www.strangers.press/about
Waiting for KANATA?
๐ฉทThe perfect way to keep you occupied while you wait
is by catching up on our previously published
chapbooks!
โจInterested? Visit this link to get a copy: www.strangers.press/k%C3%A1-si%C...
Bright and colourful cover design for 'The Three Crabs' by Oba Minako
COMING SOON...
๐ฆThe Three Crabs by ลba Minako, tr. Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda
๐This chapbook is part of KANATA, our upcoming
series of chapbooks from Japan!
Follow this link to find out more: www.strangers.press/kanata
INTRODUCING... UDON: UNKNOWN
DOG OF NOBODY by Takayama Haneko, tr.
LK Nithya!๐
๐This chapbook is part of KANATA, our upcoming
series from Japan!
๐More cover reveals to be revealed soon!
Follow this link to find out more: strangers.press/product-page...
COMING SOON... ๐๐
God of the Word by Kou Machida, tr. Daniel Joseph
This exciting new chapbook is part of our upcoming series KANATA, featuring incredible writers from Japan!
Find out more by visiting our website: www.strangers.press/kanata
๐Check out Maya Rubin's review of Kรก-siรณng, a beautifully-designed series of Taiwanese chapbooks from Strangers Press (edited by Jeremy Tiang) in New Bloom.
๐Read the review here: newbloommag.net/2025/04/05/k...
@jeremytiang.bsky.social @newbloommag.net
This is so fun! Hope you enjoy โบ๏ธ
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๐Weโre delighted that Cage (by Qiu Miaojin & translated by Shengchi Hsu) is on @chinabooksreview.bsky.social End of Year List!!
๐Take a look at the list here: chinabooksreview.com/2024/12/19/b...
๐Weโre currently reprinting Cage! Pre-order here: www.strangers.press/product-page...
๐Reminding you about the great review of Mountain Rat (by Lulyang Nomin & translated by Yu Teng-Wei), in Asymptote Journal!
๐Read the review here: www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2024/12...
๐Pick up your copy of Mountain Rat here: www.strangers.press/product-page...
We're so glad to hear it! Thanks so much for reading โค๏ธ๐
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The complete set of Strangers Pressโ Keshiki - new voices from Japan was in my Christmas stocking. #booksky ๐ฏ๐ต #booksintranslation @strangerspress.bsky.social
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an early Christmas present for myself, all of the translated chapbooks sets from small UK press @strangerspress.bsky.social
all are back in print! The latest three sets are:
Kลซnai - Lithuanian
Iyagi - Korea
kรก-siรณng - Taiwan
an early Christmas present for myself, all of the translated chapbooks sets from small UK press @strangerspress.bsky.social
all are back in print! The title and country of each translated set:
Keshiki - Japan
Yeoyu - Korea
Verzet - Netherlands
+Svizra - Switzerland
So excited to see Mountain Rat written by Lulyang Nomin and translated by Yu Teng-Wei mentioned in Asymptote's round-up for the best new books in world lit!
Read the article here! asymptotejournal.com/blog/2024/12...
๐Congrats to the wonderful Lin King, winner of the 2024 US National Book Award for Translated Literature for her translation of Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-Zi!
๐Her translation of Cloud Labour by Sabrina Huang is part of kรก-siรณng, our new series of chapbooks.
๐ธPhoto by Annette An-Jen Liu
โA breathless, powerful storyโ ๐
So lovely to read an excellent review by @tonysreadinglist.bsky.social of Not Your Child and Cage from our new kรก-siรณng series!
Read the review here โก๏ธ tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2024/12/09/n...
Welcome to Strangers Press Bluesky!
โก๏ธ We are focused on publishing literary translations and international writing
๐Our most recent series, kรก-siรณng (pictured), features writers and translators from Taiwan in a set of five thrillingly distinctive chapbooks
๐ Visit our website! www.strangers.press
