Polly Barton is a writer and translator.
She has written two non-fiction books, Fifty Sounds and Porn: An Oral History, and translated numerous titles of Japanese literature and non-fiction.
[1] Her translations have been featured in Granta, Catapult, and The White Review, and in 2019 she won the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for her non-fiction debut, Fifty Sounds.
[2][3] Barton grew up in west London and studied philosophy at the University of Cambridge.
She traveled to Japan to teach English as part of the JET Program.