Fair
The Life-Art of Translation
$38.64
- Paperback
- Release Date
29 May 2025
Summary
Fair: The Life-Art of Translation, is a satirical, refreshing and brilliantly playful book about learning the art of translation, being a bookworker in the publishing industry, growing up, family, and class.
Loosely set in an imagined book fair/art fair/fun fair, in which every stall or ride imitates a real-world scenario or dilemma which must be observed and negotiated, the book moves between personal memories and larger questions about the role of the literary translator in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781913513733 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1913513734 |
| Author: | Jen Calleja |
| Publisher: | Prototype Publishing Ltd. |
| Imprint: | Prototype Publishing Ltd. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Release Date: | 29 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 282g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 17mm |
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About The Author
Jen Calleja
Jen Calleja is a poet, writer and essayist who has been widely published, including in The White Review, The London Magazine, and Best British Short Stories (Salt). She was awarded an Authors’ Foundation Grant from the Society of Authors to work on debut novel Vehicle (Prototype, 2023), which was shortlisted for the Short Fiction/University of Essex Prize. Jen’s short story collection I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For was published by Prototype in 2020, and Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode was published by Rough Trade Books in 2024. An excerpt from Fair was Longlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize for Experimentation in Text.
Jen has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize as a literary translator from German into English and was the inaugural Translator in Residence at the British Library. Jen is co-founding editor of Praspar Press and played and toured in the DIY punk band Sauna Youth.
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