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Strangers Press @strangerspress.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

New voices from across Asia! ✨ From our Japanese Kanata collection to Korean narratives in Iyagi and beyond, we curate stories that spotlights undiscovered Asian writers. 📚 Explore our beautiful Asian chapbooks: www.strangers.press/shop

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Information about IYAGI and YEOGU in black text against a white box with a blue and orange background.

Information about KANATA and KESHIKI from Strangers Press in black text against a white box with a purple and red background.

Information about Ka-Siong from Strangers Press in black text against a white box with a pink and green background.

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Strangers Press @strangerspress.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Global Queer Stories, Local Norwich Pride! 🏳️‍🌈 In celebration of Norwich Pride taking place this weekend, we're highlighting some of our chapbooks that translate queer experiences from across the world, curated in Norwich! ✍️ 📚 Explore queer stories in translation: www.strangers.press/shop

Covers from Strangers Press books against a multicoloured background with Norwich Pride in multicoloured text against a white background.

Cover of Knock off Viagra & Jeje against a white background with info such as author, translator and a synopsis in black text against a white background.

Cover of Cage against a white background with info such as author, translator and a synopsis in black text against a white background.

Cover of Taxi Driver against a white background with info such as author, translator and a synopsis in black text against a white background.

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Strangers Press @strangerspress.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Great stories connect us across borders. 🌍📚 Japanese fiction is having a huge moment. One example: The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translated by Jesse Kirkwood, who also translated Kamachi & Pictures of Her in the Kanata collection. ✨ ⭐ Beautiful Kanata chapbooks: www.strangers.press/kanata

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Information on UDON: Unknown Dog of Nobody and Three Crabs in black text against blue background.

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Kathryn Hemmann @kathrynthehuman.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Udon: Unknown Dog of Nobody, available as a gorgeous chapbook from @strangerspress.bsky.social, follows three sisters and their adopted dog into adulthood. Haneko Takayama writes speculative ecofiction about animals, and it's fantastic to see her work in translation! japaneselit.net/2025/10/03/u...

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Udon: Unknown Dog of Nobody

Haneko Takayama’s short story Udon: Unknown Dog of Nobody, published by Strangers Press as a stand-alone chapbook in their Kanata series, follows three sisters connected by their love for their fam…

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Oliver Arditi @paracyclops.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I picked up this book on a whim in Hive Books in Norwich. It's a beautiful chapbook containing a single, exquisitely wrought SF short-story in translation. Lucid, polyvalent and ambiguous. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a0b1... #sf #sciencefiction #sabrinahuang #linking @strangerspress.bsky.social

A white male hand holding a copy of 'Cloud Labour' by Sabrina Huang, translated by Lin King, in a messy office.

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Strangers Press @strangerspress.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

🌞August slipped away into a moment in time.. but our chapbooks are forever! Why not spend the rest of this Summer reading these coming-of-age-sexual-awakening-identity-questioning short stories from our Lithuanian mini-series KŪNAI Visit our website: www.strangers.press/k%C5%ABnai

Colourful chapbooks from Strangers Press against a Tote bag on a wooden background.

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Strangers Press @strangerspress.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

🚨CALLING ALL INDIE BOOKSHOPS (and indie bookshop lovers!)🚨 📚We’ve got a new series coming out in August – specifically 5 chapbooks translated from Japanese. Expect strange, beautiful, witty stories, all packaged up in stunning cover designs from Studio Grrr.

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Strangers Press @strangerspress.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

COMING SOON... 👀 🩵Then Why Ask Me to Come? by Wataya Risa, tr. Yuki Tejima🩵 📚This is the FINAL CHAPBOOK in our KANATA series. Visit this link to join our mailing list and be the first to hear more - less than a month to go now until publication! www.strangers.press/about

Book cover for 'Then Why Ask Me to Come?' by Wataya Risa, translated by Yuki Tejima. The cover shows the title in bubble letters on a bright blue background and a magnifying glass with a face.

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Strangers Press @strangerspress.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

COMING SOON... 👀 📸Kamachi Pictures by Takiguchi Yusho, tr. Jesse Kirkwood 📚This chapbook is part of KANATA, our upcoming series of chapbooks from Japan! Join our newsletter and be the first to hear more: www.strangers.press/about

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Strangers Press @strangerspress.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Waiting for KANATA? 🩷The perfect way to keep you occupied while you wait is by catching up on our previously published chapbooks! ✨Interested? Visit this link to get a copy: www.strangers.press/k%C3%A1-si%C...

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Strangers Press @strangerspress.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

COMING SOON... 🦀The Three Crabs by Ōba Minako, tr. Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda 📚This chapbook is part of KANATA, our upcoming series of chapbooks from Japan! Follow this link to find out more: www.strangers.press/kanata

Bright and colourful cover design for 'The Three Crabs' by Oba Minako

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Strangers Press @strangerspress.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

INTRODUCING... UDON: UNKNOWN DOG OF NOBODY by Takayama Haneko, tr. LK Nithya!🌙 📚This chapbook is part of KANATA, our upcoming series from Japan! 👀More cover reveals to be revealed soon! Follow this link to find out more: strangers.press/product-page...

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Strangers Press @strangerspress.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

COMING SOON... 👀💖 God of the Word by Kou Machida, tr. Daniel Joseph This exciting new chapbook is part of our upcoming series KANATA, featuring incredible writers from Japan! Find out more by visiting our website: www.strangers.press/kanata

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Strangers Press @strangerspress.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

🎉We’re delighted that Cage (by Qiu Miaojin & translated by Shengchi Hsu) is on @chinabooksreview.bsky.social End of Year List!! 👀Take a look at the list here: chinabooksreview.com/2024/12/19/b... 🔗We’re currently reprinting Cage! Pre-order here: www.strangers.press/product-page...

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Best China Books of 2024 | China Books Review

Party luminaries. TV chefs. Poetry. Scandal. Our annual round-up of notable titles on or from China, split across nonfiction and translated literature, nominated by a roster of experts.

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Strangers Press @strangerspress.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

🎉Reminding you about the great review of Mountain Rat (by Lulyang Nomin & translated by Yu Teng-Wei), in Asymptote Journal! 🔗Read the review here: www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2024/12... 🔗Pick up your copy of Mountain Rat here: www.strangers.press/product-page...

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Georgia Reads @georgiarybanks.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

72. LITHUANIA bsky.app/profile/geor... @strangerspress.bsky.social

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Tara Cheesman @taracheesman.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

The complete set of Strangers Press’ Keshiki - new voices from Japan was in my Christmas stocking. #booksky 🇯🇵 #booksintranslation @strangerspress.bsky.social

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

an early Christmas present for myself, all of the translated chapbooks sets from small UK press @strangerspress.bsky.social all are back in print! The latest three sets are: Kūnai - Lithuanian Iyagi - Korea ká-sióng - Taiwan

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Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

an early Christmas present for myself, all of the translated chapbooks sets from small UK press @strangerspress.bsky.social all are back in print! The title and country of each translated set: Keshiki - Japan Yeoyu - Korea Verzet - Netherlands +Svizra - Switzerland

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Strangers Press @strangerspress.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

So excited to see Mountain Rat written by Lulyang Nomin and translated by Yu Teng-Wei mentioned in Asymptote's round-up for the best new books in world lit! Read the article here! asymptotejournal.com/blog/2024/12...

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What’s New in Translation: December 2024 - Asymptote Blog

Discover new work from Germany, Lebanon, Romania, France, Taiwan, Hungary, Finland, and Tunisia!

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Strangers Press @strangerspress.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

🎉Congrats to the wonderful Lin King, winner of the 2024 US National Book Award for Translated Literature for her translation of Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-Zi! 📚Her translation of Cloud Labour by Sabrina Huang is part of ká-sióng, our new series of chapbooks. 📸Photo by Annette An-Jen Liu

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Strangers Press @strangerspress.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

“A breathless, powerful story” 👀 So lovely to read an excellent review by @tonysreadinglist.bsky.social of Not Your Child and Cage from our new ká-sióng series! Read the review here ➡️ tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2024/12/09/n...

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Strangers Press @strangerspress.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Welcome to Strangers Press Bluesky! ➡️ We are focused on publishing literary translations and international writing 📗Our most recent series, ká-sióng (pictured), features writers and translators from Taiwan in a set of five thrillingly distinctive chapbooks 🔗 Visit our website! www.strangers.press

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