We are excited to welcome back to Voce, experimental writer, poet, & literary translator JEN CALLEJA, encouraging you to take up her invitation & attend the book fair, art fair, or, possibly, fun fair, where her typically slippery & singular new book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION (perhaps?) takes place.
The event will be chaired by editor of Wasafiri Magazine & judge for the International Booker Prize 2025, SANA GOYAL.
‘With the singular brilliance, generosity and commitment to formal innovation that characterise her expansive body of work, Jen Calleja has gifted us a wholly indispensable fairground tour. Essential reading for anyone interested in translation, translations and the working conditions of those who write them...’ KATE BRIGGS author of THIS LITTLE ART
JEN CALLEJA is a poet, writer & essayist who has been widely published, including in The White Review, The London Magazine, & Best British Short Stories (Salt). She was awarded an Authors’ Foundation Grant from the Society of Authors to work on debut novel ‘Vehicle’ (Prototype, 2023), which was shortlisted for the Short Fiction/University of Essex Prize. Jen’s short story collection ‘I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For’ was published by Prototype in 2020, & ‘Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode’ was published by Rough Trade Books in 2024. An excerpt from ‘Fair’ was Longlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize for Experimentation in Text. Jen has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize as a literary translator from German into English & was the inaugural Translator in Residence at the British Library. Jen is co-founding editor of Praspar Press & played & toured in the DIY punk band Sauna Youth.
This is one of our BORDERLESS events where we foreground world literature in translation, & welcome authors from across the world to discuss their work, often alongside their translators.
TICKETS: £3 standard entry / £12.99 book & entry
Please book your ticket here on our Eventbrite page*
*Please note we will be unable to offer refunds on tickets when requested within 7 days of an event date.
VOCE BOOKS is located at 54-57 Allison Street, Digbeth with step-free access via BRIG Café. For further enquiries about the event, or to discuss any other access requirements please email info@vocebooks.com
