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Tilted Axis Press @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

We sincerely apologise for the delay in receiving your copy of Annah, Infinite. This book is incredibly important, and we want to ensure that Khairani Barokka’s vision is fully honoured.

Annah, Infinite is a unique and complex work. It represents a new form of writing—unprecedented in the history of our publishing. Sweeping in scope, it draws on Okka’s interdisciplinary practice, multi-genre, and offering a radical new approach to weaving visual and textual culture, Annah, Infinite is groundbreaking.

Our typesetters have been working with great care, but they have requested additional time to set the book properly. We believe these elements are necessary to the work, as we want to ensure Okka’s book receives the attention, precision, and respect it so greatly deserves.

As a result, the publication date of Annah, Infinite has been moved back slightly to early September. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause, but rest assured—the book will be ready in time for Okka’s upcoming events.

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we take the necessary time to produce this extraordinary work with the care it deserves.

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Michael Luongo @michaelluongo.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

a wonderful article on literary translation in the @nytimes.com by Alexandra Alter on @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social Tilted Axis Press www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/b...

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A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off.

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Liam Bishop @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

✍️It’s Women in Translation Month and I’m speaking to Yan Ge about her life and work And it’s a two parter! Join us as we discuss ELSEWHERE, STRANGE BEASTS OF CHINA, happiness and much more! @faberbooks.bsky.social @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social Live tomorrow: linktr.ee/ripplingpagesp…

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Liam Bishop @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

💥Yan Ge is looking for a challenge! Part 1 of my conversation with Yan Ge is here. Is it necessary to make life hard on yourself when writing, whether that’s in Chinese or English? Books from @faberbooks.bsky.social and @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social in this ep. linktr.ee/ripplingpagesp…

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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 15/08/2025

Falling behind a bit, but these are this week and weekend's lovely extra reads: - How to Be Unmothered x @camilleuadams.bsky.social / Restless Books - Annah, Infinite x mailbykite.bsky.social / @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social - Patchwork x Tom Comitta / @coffeehousepress.bsky.social 💙📚

3 book covers. Unmothered is kind of a black and white double exposure masked into a torn dress on an orange background (I think). Annah Infinite is simple black title text under a forward slash (i think) on a pale pink background. Patchwork is orange and blue shapes arranged into a pattern.

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Alexandra Cristie @alexcristie.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I spent my weekend inhaling this collection of interconnected short stories. Thoroughly enjoyed it, review coming soon ✨ (now that I'm off from Uni & I can read & write whatever I want) @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social #bookSky #bookRec #WomenInTranslation

Where the Wild Ladies Are by Matsuda Aoko, translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton

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Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

So excited to see this in the world! HUGE congratulations Okka @mailbykite.bsky.social xx #BookSky @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Have not posted on IG in yrs and am deleting it soon… but a dear friend has just informed me that none other than actor and stand-up Ronny Chieng has liked @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social’s IG post about my ANNAH, INFINITE.

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a man in a white shirt is holding a microphone with a netflix logo in the background

Alt: a malaysian chinese man in a white shirt is holding a microphone and speaking, captioned with the words ‘IT FEELS GOOD TO SAY IT’.

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

ANNAH, INFINITE is an Expert Pick in @thebookseller.com! Thanks so much to excellent writer @pollyrowena.bsky.social, for including it in the Disability Focus. ‘Vital, groundbreaking work.’ ❤️‍🔥 @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social

Cropped photo of a newspaper clipping, with a pink book cover saying ‘Annah, Infinite by Khairani Barokka’, below which is the text: ‘Khairani Barokka | Annah, Infinite | Tilted Axis Press, 19th August, £15.99, PB, 9781917126038 | Part-memoir, part-deconstruction of colonialism and art, of disability and ableism and the understanding of pain, Annah, Infinite blends lyrical prose, visual art and poetry in English and Javanese, circling Paul Gauguin’s painting Annah la Javanaise (c1893-94). Barokka explores selfhood and interconnectivity as a disabled Indonesian creative under the multiple dehumanising colonial gaze of the art world and medical gaze of the abled world. Vital, groundbreaking work.’

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Out in July from @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social: "In 1966 Suriname, the Vanta family, an blend of Creole, Maroon, French, Indian, Indigenous, British, and Jewish heritage, is led by Grandma Bee, a proud, cigar-smoking matriarch. Bee is facing her final days and pondering what truly binds a family"

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World Editions @worldedbooks.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Such an inspiring event tonight with @jeremytiang.bsky.social launching his novel State of Emergency and translation of Delicious Hunger published by @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social. Thank you to Singapore Unbound for hosting!

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Am so v grateful for the work and existence of inimitable, MacArthur Genius @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. #DisabilityJustice Touched by her blurb for ANNAH, INFINITE. Pre-orders mean a lot, pls do so from @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social site to get 10% off www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infini...

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‘What is behind a portrait? What layers of meaning and bodily experiences are hidden or distorted when one is objectified by the artist? Khairani Barokka breaks down Annah la Javanaise by Paul Gauguin through a lens of colonialism, ableism, heteronormativity, and racism. The author sees pain written on Annah’s body and reflects on her pain journey, tracing years of torture and neglect. Annah, Infinite is a fascinating exploration of Barokka’s relationship with a brown person who was real and made into a painting.’— Alice Wong, author of Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life

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Alexandra Cristie @alexcristie.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Books I read in June. Gathering the books for the picture, I realised it's all indie presses, which always leads to a great reading month ✨ @saqibooks.bsky.social @dauntbookspub.bsky.social #PeirenePress @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social #bookSky #BooksInTranslation

Five books: Babylon, Albion: A Personal History of Myth and Migration by Dalia Al-Dujaili, The City and the House by Natalia Ginzburg, translated from the Italian by Dick Davis, B. Proudew by Irena Dousková, translated from the Czech by Melvyn Clarke, The Brothers by Asko Sahlberg, translated from the Finnish by Emily Jeremiah and Fleur Jeremiah, and Where the Wild Ladies Are by Matsuda Aoko, translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The book of my life (so far), ANNAH, INFINITE is an escape story. A translation of a painting, in speculative nonfic, poetry & art. Took 14 yrs, &I’m inviting you to love it as I do. Aug 19 UK, Nov 11 US. For reviews/i’views/events: tramy@tiltedaxispress.com www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infini...

On a pink background with a dark red slash on the cover, book shows title, ‘Annah, Infinite by Khairani Barokka’, and ‘Tilted Axis Press’.

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Tilted Axis Press @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Thank you Haleh Agar for this pertienent review of Our City That Year by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell. You can read Haleh's review, “Shree and Lubrin’s Fictions Offer Hope In Divisive Times” in the most recent edition of the Jhalek Review! Link here substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Tilted Axis Press @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

What books have shaped your understanding of trans resilience and revolution?” REVATHI: A LIFE IN TRANS ACTIVISM is an essential read for #transhistoryweek. Written by A. Revathi, tr by Nandini Murali

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Enormous congrats to @shreedaisy.bsky.social on UK publication of OUR CITY THAT YEAR, her newest tr. of Geetanjali Shree, out now w @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social! ✨🌟✨💫

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Tilted Axis Press @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

A quiet storm of memory, loss, and ghosts — dd's Umbrella lingers like a whisper you can’t unhear. In a beautiful review, @taylortaeyeon.bsky.social calls it “a ghost story about memory that lingers and grief that mutates.” Read it via Singapore Unbound: singaporeunbound.org/suspect-jour...

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

“Into this city the three of them came forth. Panicked. Determined to bring everything to the fore: the crime and the criminal; the wounded and the dead. All of it.” Read from Geetanjali Shree’s Our City That Year, translated by @shreedaisy.bsky.social.

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So this is the place. Our city. Into this city the three of them came forth. Panicked. Determined to bring everything to the fore: the crime and the criminal; the wounded and the dead. All of it. T…

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Read the first chapter of Our City that Year, my translation of Geetanjali Shree’s Hindi novel, in @literaryhub.bsky.social

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In Other Words @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

“When life itself had become a collage in which slivers and scraps floated about, sticking hither and thither as in the aftermath of an explosion, forming and deforming shapes, how could we escape the incomplete, the scattered, the broken?” @shreedaisy.bsky.social @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social

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Turnaround Books @turnarounduk.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

From the 2022 International Booker Prize–winning duo comes OUR CITY THAT YEAR! A searing, kaleidoscopic novel of memory, violence, and resistance. A haunting echo of 1992, and a story that still resonates today. From @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social buff.ly/R3C4lhp

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Tilted Axis Press @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Geetanjali Shree attending the Miu Miu Literary Club, 2025 – “A Woman’s Education”. Our City That Year translated by Daisy Rockwell is her next novel that will be published in English. Available for pre-orders now on our website, and out on April 22nd 2025.   #MiuMiuLiteraryClub

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In Other Words @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

We had our last session of the Translation Table last night and we are so thankful for what has been a wonderful community of readers, writers, and translators! 💫 Our final book of the series was ‘On a Woman’s Madness’, by Astrid Roemer and translated by Lucy Scott. @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social

A pink book, entitled ‘On a Woman’s Madness’, shown against a background of a library space.

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

ANNAH, INFINITE is now coming out in August in the UK, November in the US w @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social. Waited 14 yrs to tell these stories of colonial visual cultures creating disbelief of ill+disabled brown ppl, thru cruel translation, & how we escape. Can’t wait for you to meet the Annahs. 🤍

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Just gave a lecture, ‘Sanctuary as Process’, for graduate students at Birmingham College of Art. 🙏🏼 Thank you to Dr Mona Casey for inviting me, esp for her passion for my Annah, Infinite art project—14 yrs long, & titular book coming Aug 19 @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social. It meant the world to hear.

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Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Given the number of (white) translators I've seen over the past few days saying they like to use genAI to "edit" the work of non-native speakers (for appalling reasons), it feels like a good time to once again recommend Violent Phenomena (published by @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social).

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Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation — Tilted Axis Press

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Wind&Bones Books @windandbones.com · 10/04/2025

"At a moment when nationalism and isolationism are rising in both Europe and the United States, the window that literature can provide into other cultures feels essential" An excellent article here featuring @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social about #books in #translation. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/b...

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A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off.

The British publisher Tilted Axis specialized in innovative translated literature. It won them major awards. Now they’re coming to the U.S.

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Tilted Axis Press @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

“A testament to the resilience of queer lives everywhere. A story of love, survival and freedom, woven with an artistically accomplished touch” — The 2025 International Booker judges on On a Woman’s Madness

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Tilted Axis Press @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

📢 Take Action for Amanda Echanis this International Women’s Day! Unjustly detained since 2020, stand with her this #IWD25 & demand her right to a fair trial today. #FreeAmandaEchanis #InternationalWomensDay 🔗 Take action: pen-international.org/internationa...

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Tilted Axis Press @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Our tiny press is grateful for all the orders made over the last few weeks! This wave has come when we just finished moving distribution warehouses in the UK, and our small team is at full capacity. We might need some extra time to fulfil orders. Thanks for your patience as you bear with us!

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This whole list looks so, so good. Inc @shreedaisy.bsky.social’s tr. of Geetanjali Shree’s OUR CITY THAT YEAR, @antonhur.com’s tr. of Park Seolyeon’s CAPITALISTS MUST STARVE, and my own book-baby, ✨ ANNAH, INFINITE (10 Jun UK, 11 Nov Nth America). #CripLit #DisabilityJustice

Annah Infinite by Khairani Barokka 10 Jun (UK), 11 Nov (North America)

An incisive look at how colonial ableism, racism, and sexism have kept violent legacies on museum walls, it shows empathetic possibilities for imagining otherwise and charts histories of resilience and disabled people’s longstanding activism. Interspersed with the author’s own poetry, fiction, and visual art on the painting’s subject, this is a book of emotional heft.

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Erin @eringoburke.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"Since its founding a decade ago, Tilted Axis has gained a reputation for bringing out a wide range of groundbreaking, genre-defying literature in translation." I'm really late to the game, but thrilled to learn about @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social through aldaily.com

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Alex Thornber @nucosi.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Love to see it! Tilted Axis are absolutely brilliant and they only publish the coolest, most moving books.

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Don’t use IG anymore (dead, archival account), but have been informed we are on the NYT Instagram as well. Congrats @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social on their Int’l Booker Longlisting today, with Astrid Roemer’s ON A WOMAN’S MADNESS, tr. Lucy Scott. ✨ Global majority writers forever

Screenshot of the NYTBooks and NYTimes Instagram, showing a post of a photo, overlaid with the text: ‘A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk On Translated Literature. It Paid Off.’ Pic is of five Asian people in a bookstore with yellow shelves, one in the middle with her hand on her hip (Kris), the others (Meera, PA, Tra My, and myself) reading books.

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

So happy to see Astrid Roemer and Lucy Scott get this recognition for this absolute force of a book. I’ve never read anything like it and I’m so proud @twolinespress.bsky.social got to publish it in the US and to have partnered with the peerless @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social in the U.K.!

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