title: Polly Barton (author)
text: # Polly Barton (author)
  
  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. 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.
  
  ## Life and career
  
  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.
  
  