Polly Barton

Polly Barton is a writer and Japanese literary translator. 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, for which she won the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay
Prize, and Porn: An Oral History. What Am I, A Deer?, her debut novel, will be published in April 2026.