Tilted Axis Press

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Tilted Axis Press
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StatusActive
Founded6 June 2015;9 years ago (2015-06-06)
Founder
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Distribution NBN International
Publication types Books
Nonfiction topicsAsian literature
Official website tiltedaxispress.com

Tilted Axis Press is a non-profit British publishing house specializing in the publication of contemporary Asian literature. [1] Founded by Deborah Smith in 2015 following the success of her translation of Han Kang's The Vegetarian , [2] the organization has gone on to publish 42 books and several chapbooks translated from 18 languages. [3] [4] Tilted Axis became known as the original translator and English language publisher of Tokyo Ueno Station by Miri Yu, [5] which went on to receive critical acclaim as both a book and translation. [6] [7] Their profile rose higher in 2022, when Tomb of Sand , written by Geetanjali Shree and translated by Daisy Rockwell, won the International Booker Prize, marking the first novel written in Hindi to take the award. [8]

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History

As of 2017, Tilted Axis Press made the largest share of their sales through traditional brick-and-mortar retail (35.1%), with the second largest channel being direct local and international sales through their website. [9] Although the press has only received limited distribution outside of the United Kingdom, some books have been co-published internationally. For example, in 2018 The Lifted Brow, under their Brow Books imprint, co-published their translation of "The Impossible Fairytale" in Australia. [10] [11]

In 2021 Tilted Axis launched a crowdfunding campaign to support the translation and publication of several chapbooks covering feminist literature, raising over £5,000 in total. One of the collections in the series, Pa-Liwanag, received a positive review from CNN Philippines, who stated the book "proves that writings by farmers and peasants are overdue". [12]

In July 2022, following Tilted Axis's victory at The Booker International Prize, Deborah Smith announced that she was stepping down as Publisher and Managing Director. At the same time, Kristen Vida Alfaro was announced as her successor in these roles. [13]

The publisher has been noted for its choice in content, often "unconvential" with a focus on feminist and queer themes, and its focus on the translators themselves, who are prominently credited and given royalties from book sales. As of 2025 Tilted Axis has eight part time employees. [4]

Tilted Axis expanded its distribution network to the United States in February 2025. Previously, it had licensed works to American publishers. [4]

Titles

Book index [14] TitleAuthorTranslatorPublication Year
1Panty Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay Arunava Sinha2016
2One Hundred Shadows Hwang Jungeun Jung Yewon2016
3Indigenous SpeciesKhairani Barokka2016
4The Sad Part Was Prabda Yoon Mui Poopoksakul2017
5The Impossible Fairytale Han Yujoo Janet Hong2017
6AbandonSangeeta BandyopadhyayArunava Sinha2017
7The Devils’ Dance Hamid Ismailov Donald Rayfield2018
8Moving PartsPrabda YoonMui Poopoksakul2018
9I'll Go OnHwang JungeunEmily Yae Won2018
10 Tokyo Ueno Station Yu Miri Morgan Giles2019
11Sergius Seeks Bacchus Norman Erikson Pasaribu Tiffany Tsao 2019
12The YoginiSangeeta BandyopadhyayArunava Sinha2019
13Of Strangers and BeesHamid IsmailovShelley Fairweather-Vega2019
14Every Fire You Tend Sema Kaygusuz Nicholas Glastonbury2019
Killing Kanoko / Wild Grass on the Riverbank Itō Hiromi Jeffrey Angles2020
15Where the Wild Ladies Are Matsuda Aoko Polly Barton2020
16Arid Dreams Duanwad Pimwana Mui Poopoksakul2020
17No Presents Please Jayant Kaikini Tejaswini Niranjana2020
18Women Dreaming Salma Meena Kandasamy2020
Pa-Liwanag (Translating Feminisms)2020
Deviant Disciples (Translating Feminisms)2020
19Strange Beasts of China Yan Ge Jeremy Tiang2020
20Black Box Shiori Ito Allison Markin Powell2021
21ManaschiHamid IsmailovDonald Rayfield2021
22 Tomb of Sand Geetanjali Shree Daisy Rockwell 2021
23 Love in the Big City Sang Young Park Anton Hur 2021
24Happy Stories, MostlyNorman Erikson PasaribuTiffany Tsao2021
25ChinatownThuậnNguyễn An Lý2022
26Father May Be an Elephant and Mother a Small Basket, But... Gogu Shyamala Diia Rajan et al.2022
Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation2022
27So Distant From My Life Monique Ilboudo Yarri Kamara2022
28Unexpected VanillaLee HyemiSoje2022
29No EdgesSwahili Authors (various)Various Translators2023
30I Belong To NowhereKalani Thakur CharalSipra Mukherjee, Mrinmoy Pramanick2023
31The End of August Yu Miri Morgan Giles2023
32A Book, UntitledShushan AvagyanDeanna Cachoian-Schanz2023
33dd’s UmbrellaHwang Jungeune. yaewon2024
34Again I hear these watersShalim M. Hussain2024
35To Hell with PoetsBaqytgul SarmekovaMirgul Kali2024
36Elevator in Sài GònThuậnNguyễn An Lý2024
37My Dream Job Norman Erikson Pasaribu 2024
38Delicious HungerHai FanJeremy Tiang2024
39On a Woman's MadnessAstrid RoemerLucy Scott2024
40Revathi: A Life in Trans ActivismA. RevathiNandini Murali2024
41Our City That Year Geetanjali Shree Daisy Rockwell 2025
42Off-WhiteAstrid RoemerLucy Scott & David McKay2025

References

  1. ↑ "About". Tilted Axis Press. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  2. ↑ "Translator Becomes Publisher: Deborah Smith and Tilted Axis Press". Publishing Perspectives. 25 August 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  3. ↑ Hession, Ronan (29 October 2020). "#TranslatedLit An Introduction to Tilted Axis Press". Global Literature in Libraries Initiative. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  4. 1 2 3 Alter, Alexandra (15 February 2025). "A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  5. ↑ Rich, Motoko (27 November 2020). "Her Antenna Is Tuned to the Quietest Voices". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  6. ↑ "Review | Yu Miri's 'Tokyo Ueno Station' focuses its attention on the shamefully overlooked". Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  7. ↑ "National Book Award winners announced". Books+Publishing. 23 November 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
  8. ↑ Marshall, Alex (26 May 2022). "Hindi Novel Wins International Booker Prize for the First Time". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  9. ↑ "The business of small presses: 4 things we learnt the hard way | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  10. ↑ Whitmore, Alice. "Australia's taste for translated literature is getting broader, and that's a good thing". The Conversation. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  11. ↑ "Brow Books begins co-publishing partnership with Tilted Axis Press". BROW BOOKS. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  12. ↑ "This new chapbook proves that writings by farmers and peasants are overdue". cnn. Archived from the original on 11 December 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  13. ↑ Comerford, Ruth (7 July 2022). "Alfaro made sole m.d. and publisher at Tilted Axis as Smith steps back". The Bookseller. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  14. ↑ Tilted Axis Press numbers every major release. Chapbooks and other publishings of that sort are not indexed.
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