Aspects of Practice - Creation and Recreation: on Inventiveness and Translation, With Polly Barton

Join award-winning translator and writer Polly Barton for reflections and discussion on translation and creativity.

This event will be chaired by Charlotte Ryland, Director of the Queen's College Translation Exchange.This event is part of 'Aspects of Practice', the public strand of the new University of Oxford Masters in Creative Translation. 'Aspects of Practice' is delivered in partnership with The Queen's College Translation Exchange.It is open to all and tickets are free.The event will be held in the Long Room at New College at 5.30pm on Wednesday 21st October 2026.About Polly BartonPolly Barton is a writer and literary translator from Japanese into English.

She has translated numerous titles of Japanese literature and non-fiction.

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.

Her debut novel, What Am I, A Deer?, was published in April 2026, and she has also written two non-fiction books, Fifty Sounds and Porn: An Oral History.Creative Translation Image (C) Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford