Online launch (via Zoom) of the UK edition of Jazmina Barrera's debut novel Cross-Stitch, translated by Christina MacSweeney, where both Jazmina and Christina will be in conversation with Rachel Atkin (better known as @booksnpunks) discussing the novel's themes, translation and Latin American literature.

The discussion will be followed by a Q+A. Any money donated for tickets can go towards the purchase of a book!

More information, here!

Please join us for MTO Press’s launch of Jen Calleja’s translation of the debut novel from Helene Bukowski, originally written in German, Milk Teeth!

Helene will be in conversation with the translator (into English) of both of her novels, Jen Calleja, who is the author of the book-length poem Dust Sucker (Makina Books), short story collection I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For (Prototype) and the novel Vehicle (Prototype), among other works.

Signed copies of Milk Teeth will be available, on the night, and we will also have (free) exclusive merch available for every attendee!

More information, here!

Please join us for MTO Press’s launch of Jen Calleja’s translation of the debut novel from Helene Bukowski, originally written in German, Milk Teeth!

Helene will be in conversation with Edinburgh-based writer and visual artist Sophia Hembeck, who is the author of two essay collections and bestselling Substack The Muse Letter.

Signed copies of Milk Teeth will be available, on the night, and we will also have (free) exclusive merch available for every attendee!

More information, here!

Please join us for MTO Press’s launch of Jen Calleja’s translation of Helene Bukowski’sdebut novel, originally written in German, Milk Teeth!

Helene will be in conversation with Edinburgh-based translator Isabel Adey, whose most recent translation of Giovanna Rivero’s Fresh Dirt from the Grave was published by Charco Press in June 2023.

Signed copies of Milk Teeth will be available, on the night, and we will also have (free) exclusive merch available for every attendee!

More information, here!

We invite you to join us in conversation with Helene Bukowski on her dystopian climate novel Milk Teeth, published in the UK for the first time this month. Translated from German by Jen Calleja, Milk Teeth follows a mother and daughter fighting for survival during a climate apocalypse.

More information, here!

The OCCT joins forces with the TORCH Polish Studies Working Group to celebrate Polish literature at the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) Research Centre with the launch of Kate Webster's Polish–English translation of Urszula Honek's White Nights (MTO Press, 2023). Translator Kate Webster will be in conversation with author Urszula Honek. The conversation will be followed by a bilingual reading of White Nights and a Q&A with the audience.

More information, here!

Please join us for the launch of Kate Webster’s translation of the debut short story collection by poet Urszula Honek, originally written in Polish, White Nights!

Joining Urszula in conversation will be the Glasgow-based poet and translator Juana Adcock! Copies of White Nights (signed by both author + translator) will be available, on the night and MTO Press will also have (free) and exclusive merch available to celebrate their first publication!

More information, here!

Please join us for the launch of Kate Webster’s translation of the debut short story collection by poet Urszula Honek, originally written in Polish, White Nights!

White Nights is a series of interconnected stories concerning the various tragedies and misfortunes that befall a group of people who all grew up and live(d) in the same village in the Beskid Niski region, in southern Poland. Each story centres itself around a different character and how it is that they manage to cope, survive or merely exist, despite, and often in ignorance of, the poverty, disappointment, tragedy, despair, brutality and general sense of futility that surrounds them. Urszula relates to us, with the sincerest care and honesty, a localised, yet so clearly universal, story of ruin and hope: a story where the protagonists do not ask to be understood, but merely to be seen and to be heard. Kate Webster’s brilliant translation of Urszula’s poetic, yet often earthen, prose brings us to places that, though they are seldom seen in literature, we may never forget.

Joining Urszula and Kate in conversation will be the author Katharina Volckmer (The Appointment (2020), Fitzcarraldo Editions + Avid Reader Press).

Copies of White Nights (signed by both author + translator) will be available, on the night, and Burley Fisher will be the first place that you can get one.

We will also have (free) and exclusive merch available to celebrate our first publication!

Please join us for our first event, hosted by Burley Fisher Books: our launch party!

Joining us for the launch are seven of the translators currently working on MTO’s catalogue: Juana Adcock, Jen Calleja, Rosalind Harvey, Christina MacSweeney, Miriam Tobin, Ayça Türkoğlu and Kate Webster.

Each translator will be discussing and reading an excerpt from their respective translations (as a preview of MTO’s upcoming titles) and we will then have a brief Q+A on more general translation topics.

Previously published translations from the translators will be on sale and available for signing, on the night, and (free) merch exclusive to the event will be available from MTO.

Readings from:

• Juana Adcock: The Sadness of Shadows, originally written in Spanish by Lola Ancira (Mexico)

• Jen Calleja: Milk Teeth and The Warrior, both originally written in German by Helene Bukowski (Germany)

• Rosalind Harvey: Remains, originally written in Spanish by Lola Ancira (Mexico)

• Christina MacSweeney: Cross-Stitch, originally written in Spanish by Jazmina Barrera (Mexico)

• Miriam Tobin: A Crack in the Night, originally written in Spanish by Laura Baeza (Mexico)

• Ayça Türkoğlu: All Dogs Die, originally written in German by Cemile Sahin (Germany)

• Kate Webster: White Nights, originally written in Polish by Urszula Honek (Poland)

Tickets available directly from Burley Fisher,  here!