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Translation Grants for Those Who Promote Taiwan Books Internationally 🌈
Thank you to @wwborders.bsky.social & the guest editors for featuring my translation of the prologue to Gigi Leung's 梁莉姿 novel in progress for their post-2019 fiction from HK series. Stay tuned for more pieces in the series coming next week!
Our July book will be Tongueless by Lau Yee-Wa, translated by @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social. We'll be meeting to discuss on the 6th July at 7pm UK time. PM for the Zoom link!
Congratulations to all the 2026 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship program mentees! 🎉 I’m delighted to serve as the HK Poetry mentor for the talented Allie Xiang on her translations of poems by Damian Cheung 小西. Please check out all the mentees’ bios! ✨
Thank you @literaryhub.bsky.social for sharing an excerpt of Everyday Movement, coming out from @riverheadbooks.bsky.social tomorrow February 10 ✨
Lau: “When enough people lose their tongues, the only language left is the language of power, resentment, and eventually violence.”
Chi Ta-wei
Lau: "I never set out to write a political novel...But as the pages grew, I realised I was not writing fiction. I was documenting a quiet, invisible form of violence that happens every day in classrooms, workplaces, and daily life across the world..."
Also, find the guest editors' rich introduction to the series here:
'A new wave of realist fiction has, over the past decade, attempted to confront Hong Kong’s political situation, portraying the shared experience of betrayal and abandonment...'
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Lau Yee-Wa has won the inaugural Chommanard International Women’s Literary Award for TONGUELESS, pub. in English translation by @serpents-tail.bsky.social & @feministpress.bsky.social. I couldn't be happier for her! 💖
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Happy book birthday to 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙈𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩! 📚🎂
Thank you to our fabulous team at @riverheadbooks.bsky.social & especially our editor extraordinaire @hannzhangg.bsky.social for giving this book a home in English.
Available today in the US wherever books are sold.
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The maxim “don’t judge a book by its cover” takes on new extremes in “The Best Years,” an excerpt from Gigi Leung’s novel in progress (tr. @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social ). Read it here: buff.ly/mLbRryn
C.J. and L.L. introduce the “intimate” stories in this collection of post-2019 fiction from Hong Kong.
