Translations

Book-length Translation Publications

Other Translation Publications | A Non-exhaustive List of Samples Available

Literature from Taiwan (Samples available on Books from Taiwan)

• Everything She Fails to Achieve, an excerpt from the novel by Wu Xiaole (full English manuscript available)

Searching for answers after a student suicide, a lead teacher at an elite girls school delves into the dark shadows cast by a culture of overachievement, reawakening the painful wounds that lie buried in her past.

• My Slight Problem with Infidelity, an excerpt from the novel by Hsu Li-Wei

Why is their true love condemned to lurk in the shadows? Told from the female protagonist’s first-person perspective, this story immerses readers in the emotional journey of a couple entangled in an adulterous affair.

• Dream Dialogues, an excerpt from the novel by Ci Yun

Poet and essayist Ci Yun records his reflections on family catastrophes and illness, questioning the meaning and purpose of life. Through a series of self-revelatory essays, he engages in inner dialogues on the historical process of becoming his present self.

• The Bone Collector, Master of Movable Type, an excerpt from the essay collection, Portraits of Mastery by MovingTaipei

A Taoist priest, a puppeteer, a spirit medium, and a builder of replica lightsabers – these are just a few of the masters profiled in this catalog of gifted workers from every corner of Taiwan. Read the stories of the men and women who have dedicated their lives to attaining mastery in their chosen occupation.

• An Instant; Because of Cod Liver Oil; Zipping up, an excerpt from Dakota by Wong Koi Tet, translated from Chinese, The Georgia Review (Winter 2023)
• My Take on Pantheism; Twenty-One Grams; The Neighbourhood Zoo, an excerpt from Dakota by Wong Koi Tet, translated from Chinese, The Southern Review (Oct 2022)
• The Longkau’s Name, an excerpt from Dakota by Wong Koi Tet, translated from Chinese, The Common (Sep 2022)
• Annyõng, Peter, by Hwang Jiun, translated from Korean, Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture (Jul 2022)

Awards and Others

• Multiple grants from Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea
• Korean prose mentee for the UK National Centre for Writing Emerging Translator Mentorship Program 2021/22 (mentored by Anton Hur)
• Singapore literature mentee for the American Literary Translators Association Emerging Translator Mentorship Program 2021/22 (mentored by Julia Sanches)
• Funded attendee of British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) Summer School 2023 (Korean-English workshop) and BCLT Summer School 2021 (Literature from Taiwan)
• Ad-hoc translation and assessment work for English PEN
• Organising Committee for the 46th ALTA Conference (8-11 Nov 2023), Tucson, Arizona

Available for commissions