{"product_id":"fair-with-jen-calleja-tuesday-17th-june-2025","title":"Fair Event, with Jen Calleja - Tuesday 17th June 2025","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoin us in the bookshop to hear Jen Calleja in conversation with Camilla Grudova about \u003cem\u003eFair: The Life-Art of Translation \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e6.30pm on Tuesday 17th June at Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Street, EH3 5AQ.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuy a copy of \u003cem\u003eFair\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and receive free entry to the event, or choose our Ticket-Only option for £6 (which can be used towards a purchase of the book at the event). \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFair \u003c\/em\u003eis due to be published on 29th May, so we expect to receive our stock that week. Pre-ordered copies will be sent out\/made available for collection as soon as possible.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIf you select the Book \u0026amp; Ticket option, you will receive a limited special edition (the edition featured in the graphic) which is available exclusively to independent bookshops in the UK \u0026amp; Ireland for Independent Bookshop Week (14 - 21 June). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe will send an email to confirm your booking - please be sure to check your junk\/spam folder!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout \u003cem\u003eFair:\u003c\/em\u003e  \u003c\/strong\u003eSatirical, refreshing and brilliantly playful, this book is about learning the art of translation, being a bookworker in the publishing industry, growing up, family, and class. Loosely set in an imagined book fair\/art fair\/fun fair, in which every stall or ride imitates a real-world scenario or dilemma which must be observed and negotiated, the book moves between personal memories and larger questions about the role of the literary translator in publishing, about fairness and hard work, about the ways we define success, and what it means – and whether it is possible – to make a living as an artist. \u003cem\u003eFair\u003c\/em\u003e is also interested in questions of upbringing, background, support, how different people function in the workplace, and the ways in which people are excluded or made invisible in different cultural and creative industries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt connects literary translation to its siblings in other creative arts to show how creative and subjective a practice it is while upholding the ethics and politics at play when we translate someone else’s work. Blurring the lines between memoir, autofiction, satire and polemic, Fair is a singularly inventive and illuminating book by one of the UK’s most original and admired writers and translators.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Jen Calleja:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jen Calleja is a poet, writer and essayist who has been widely published, including in The White Review, The London Magazine, and Best British Short Stories (Salt). She was awarded an Authors’ Foundation Grant from the Society of Authors to work on debut novel \u003cem\u003eVehicle\u003c\/em\u003e (Prototype, 2023), which was shortlisted for the Short Fiction\/University of Essex Prize, and longlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize for Experimentation in Text. Calleja's short story collection \u003cem\u003eI’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For \u003c\/em\u003ewas published by Prototype in 2020, and \u003cem\u003eGoblinhood: Goblin as a Mode \u003c\/em\u003ewas published by Rough Trade Books in 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Camilla Grudova: \u003c\/strong\u003eCamilla Grudova is the author of the critically acclaimed debut short story collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Doll's Alphabet\u003c\/em\u003e. Her first novel, \u003cem\u003eChildren of Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e, was longlisted for the Women's Prize. Her most recent book is a second short story collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Coiled Serpent\u003c\/em\u003e, and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her work has been published in The White Review, Granta and The Daily Telegraph. In 2023 she was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prototype Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Book \u0026 Ticket","offer_id":55217053499765,"sku":"9781913513795","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/JenCallejaFair.png?v=1743514327","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.live\/products\/fair-with-jen-calleja-tuesday-17th-june-2025","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}