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Tilted Axis

@TiltedAxisPress

Translations from Asia + Africa. We are: @kv_alfaro @abbaskins Trà My Hickin, Amandine Forest, @phuonganh2513, @mayadamayadamay & Julia Sanches.

London / India / US / Canada

Joined February 2015

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Tilted Axis
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Sep 19, 2024
We are reaching out to our community for help – so that we can continue doing what we do best: publishing trailblazing literature in translation from languages across the globe. Please consider donating and / or sharing our Crowdfunder 🔗 crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-tilt…
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Oct 10, 2024
Congratulations to Han Kang for winning the Nobel Prize for Literature! We'd also like to extend praise to translators Deborah Smith (@videshi_beti) and e. yaewon who have brought her work to the anglophone world. This is a huge win for translated fiction. 🏆
The Nobel Prize
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Oct 10, 2024
”I’m so surprised and honoured.” 2024 literature laureate Han Kang had just finished dinner with her son at her home in Seoul when she received the news of her #NobelPrize. We spoke to her, moments after she found out about growing up with books, being the first South Korean
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Tilted Axis
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Mar 10, 2022
The International @TheBookerPrizes longlist is out! Congratulations to all, but especially to our own THREE (!!!) titles: LOVE IN THE BIG CITY, HAPPY STORIES MOSTLY, and TOMB OF SAND. Recognition for translations from Korean, Indonesian and Hindi! ✊🏼
Tilted Axis
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May 26, 2022
The hug says it all! A joyous moment for Geetanjali Shree & ⁦@shreedaisy⁩. We’re utterly overwhelmed and proud. Further acknowledgments to come…
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Tilted Axis
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Nov 3, 2023
For Palestine, always. Tilted Axis Press was founded to challenge the hierarchisation of particular languages and literatures in the UK – Palestinian Liberation is in our DNA. Read our letter on Palestine on our website & below. bit.ly/3u5Ir9j
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Tilted Axis
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May 26, 2022
Tonight’s nominees, the incomparable duo Geetanjali & ⁦⁦⁦@shreedaisy⁩. More announcements soon but first it’s time for the first course!
Tilted Axis
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Nov 19, 2020
Huge congratulations from all of us at Tilted Axis to @yu_miri_0622 and @wrongsreversed for winning the National Book Award for Translated Literature for TOKYO UENO STATION! #NBAwards 1/
Tilted Axis
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May 26, 2022
Lights, camera, action! Ready for the International Booker Awards with the one and only Geetanjali Shree ✨
Tilted Axis
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Apr 6, 2022
Norman Erikson Pasaribu is in town 💜
Tilted Axis
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Nov 3, 2023
None of us are free until all of us are free. 🕊️🇵🇸 We urge our readers and colleagues to:
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Tilted Axis
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Jul 28, 2022
VIOLENT PHENOMENA: 21 Essays on Translation is out today! Happy birthday to this groundbreaking work on disrupting and decolonising translation, edited by DR. Kavita Bhanot and Jeremy Tiang. Order from the Tilted Axis site or your fave bookstore: tiltedaxispress.com/violent-phenom…
Tilted Axis
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Jul 28, 2023
Happy publication to I Belong to Nowhere by Kalyani Thakur Charal, translated from Bengali by Mrinmoy Pramanick and Sipra Mukherjee. Yesterday we welcomed into the world the first English-language poetry collection from one of India’s most hard-hitting writers.
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Tilted Axis
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Jun 4, 2020
A note on Amazon: We stopped selling our print and ebooks though Amazon last October. Unfortunately, Amazon is finding ways to keep selling our print books by sourcing them from elsewhere. We want to make it clear that we don't support Amazon and its practices.
Tilted Axis
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Jun 1, 2023
THE END OF AUGUST by Yu Miri, translated by Morgan Giles. We're so glad to share news of its publication on 29th June 2023 and the beautiful cover art by Lynne Nguyễn (@omnicreateart). Our 2nd time publishing Yu Miri, after the iconic Tokyo Ueno Station. tiltedaxispress.com/end-of-august
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