AN INTERNATIONAL POETRY JOURNAL IN ENGLISH & CHINESE
TRANSLATORS sequence by surname
Clare Cavanagh
Clare Cavanagh is Chair Professor of Slavic Languages at Northwestern Univ. in the U.S., specializing in modern Russian and Polish poetry. Among her numerous translations from Polish poetry are collections by Czeslaw Milosz, Wislawa Szymborska, and Adam Zagajewski. Author of multiple volumes of literary biography and scholarly criticism on Slavic writing, her many honors include the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation, and a PEN/Book of the Month Prize for Outstanding Literary Translation.
陳育虹 | Chen Yuhong
See Chen Yuhong’s bio here.
John A. Crespi | 江克平
The Henry R. Luce Associate Professor of Chinese at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, John A. Crespi teaches Chinese language, literature, and film. His translations from Chinese to English have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, while his research extends from modern and contemporary Chinese poetry to Chinese cartooning.
Renata Gorczynski
Renata Gorczynski is an essayist, translator, literary critic, and teacher of journalism. Her Polish to English renderings include poetry by Czeslaw Milosz and Adam Zagajewski, as well as a collection of conversations with Milosz. She lives in Poland.
韓金鵬 | Han Jinpeng
A member of George O’Connell’s 2006 Peking Univ. graduate poetry translation workshop, Beijing poet and translator Han Jinpeng taught in the U.S. and Australia before rejoining the Peking Univ. Dept. of English, where he has received several awards for his teaching, as well as a Ph.D. in American Literature. He also offers courses in Chinese culture at the Univ. of California. With Xi Chuan, he rendered some of Robert Dana’s poetry into Mandarin.
黃燦然 | Huang Canran
See Huang Canran’s bio here.
Magdalena Horvat
Magdalena Horvat (born 1978, Skopje, Macedonia) is the author of two poetry collections: This is it, your (2006) and Bluish and other poems (2010). Among the books she has translated into Macedonian are Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Fiona Sampson’s The Distance Between Us. She currently lives in Athens, Georgia.
胡續冬 | Hu Xudong
Poet, essayist, and translator Hu Xudong teaches at the Graduate Institute of World Literature at Peking Univ. Fluent in English and Portugese, Prof. Hu has taught at the Universidade de Brasilia in Brazil and was a recent member of the Univ. of Iowa International Writing Program. He is the author of several poetry collections in Chinese. English translations of his poems have appeared in the 2008 Atlanta Review China Edition, as well as Push Open the Window: Contemporary Poetry from China (Copper Canyon, 2011). On the occasion of Robert Dana’s visit to Peking Univ., he rendered some of Dana’s poetry.
Francis R. Jones
Francis R. Jones translates poetry from Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian and Dutch, but also Russian, Hungarian, Sranan and Papiamentu, rendered into both standard English and Northern-England dialects. He is currently engaged with the Collected Poems of the Yugoslav/Serbian poet Ivan V. Lalić (1931-1996). He has studied at the universities of Cambridge, Sarajevo, Reading, and Newcastle. He is Reader in Translation Studies at the School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University, England, where he trains translators and interpreters, and researches poetry translation.
梁秉鈞 | Leung Ping-kwan
See Leung Ping-kwan’s bio here.
梅申友 | Mei Shenyou
Mei Shenyou, an essayist and translator, is focused mainly on the art of poetry and its translation. He is a faculty member of Peking University’s English department, where he contributed to George O’Connell’s Fulbright poetry translation workshop. His work has appeared in many leading Chinese literary magazines, such as Foreign Literature, World Literature, Foreign Literature and Art, and Translations. A visiting scholar at the Univ. of Iowa from 2011-12, he was associated with its prestigious International Writing Program.
National Taiwan Univ. Poetry Translation Workshop
See NTU acknowledgment here.
George O’Connell | 喬直
American poet, translator, and editor George O’Connell has taught creative writing and literature in the US for many years, and served as Fulbright professor at Peking University and National Taiwan University. Among US honors for his poetry are The Pablo Neruda Prize, Atlanta Review‘s International Grand Prize, and The 49th Parallel Award. Author of The Force of Ice and Getting the Range, he has received with co-translator Diana Shi two US National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowships, two Hong Kong Arts Development Council Awards, and a Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation Grant. Their volumes include Darkening Mirror by Wang Jiaxin; Crossing the Harbour: Ten Contemporary Hong Kong Poets; Passages: Thirteen Contemporary Taiwan Poets; and Capriccio on the Way to Buy Salt by Han Dong. During a recent US NEA Literature Fellowship, they edited and translated Impossible Paradise by Taiwan poet Chen Yuhong. Since 2012 they have operated Pangolin House, an international journal of Chinese and English-language poetry and art.
Gordon Osing
American poet Gordon Osing, founder of the River City Writers Series and Prof. of English and Creative Writing at the Univ. of Memphis, first visited China in 1986, co-translating a collection of Su Shi (Su Dong Po). As 1990-92 Hong Kong Univ. Fulbright lecturer, he co-translated a volume of Song dynasty poems by Li Qingzhao, followed by Leung Ping-kwan’s City at the End of Time, a collection of poems co-translated with the author and published by Hong Kong Univ. Press/Twilight Books. City at the End of Time was reprinted in 2012. Among Prof. Osing’s many poetry collections are Crossing Against the Sun and The Water Radical, both derived from his Asia experience. He lives in Eudora, Mississippi, USA.
Peking Univ. Poetry Translation Workshop
See PKU acknowledgment here.
Peggy and Graham W. Reid
Peggy Reid, M.A. (Cantab), Doctor Honoris causa, Skopje, M.B.E., born Bath, U.K., 1939, taught English at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia, for twenty years between 1969 and 2006. Translator/co-translator from Macedonian of novels, poetry, plays, and works of nonfiction. Before her death, she lived in Canterbury, U.K.
Graham W. Reid, M.A., M.B.E. born Edinburgh, 1938. Read English at Trinity College, Cambridge. Taught English for twenty-five years at Ss. Cyril & Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia. Widely translated both poetry and prose from Macedonian into English. M.A. thesis at Bradford University on Reflections of Rural-Urban Migration in Contemporary Macedonian Poetry. Before his death, he lived in Canterbury, Kent, U.K.
史春波 | Diana Shi
Diana Shi, co-recipient of two US National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowships, has collaborated since 2006 with George O’Connell in translating many prominent western and Chinese-speaking poets. In 2012 they launched Pangolin House, the international journal of poetry and art. Ms. Shi’s extensive selected translations from American poet Arthur Sze’s The Glass Constellation appeared in 2023 from China’s Guangxi Normal University Press under the same title as 玻璃星座. She recently completed assembling and translating into Chinese 我只要少許 (I Wanted Only a Little), a volume of her selections from American poet Jane Hirshfield.
Anastassis Vistonitis | 安納斯塔西斯·維斯托尼提斯
See Anastassis Vistonitis’ bio here.
王家新 | Wang Jiaxin
See Wang Jiaxin’s bio here.
西川 | Xi Chuan
One of China’s leading contemporary poets, Xi Chuan is also a prolific essayist and translator. Author of many poetry collections in Chinese, his Notes on the Mosquito, translated by Lucas Klein, appeared in 2012 from New Directions Press (U.S.) Fluent in English, Xi Chuan was a 2002 member of the Univ. of Iowa’s International Writing Program, and has also served as Visiting Prof. at New York Univ. He currently teaches literature at Beijing’s Central Academy for Fine Arts.
遠洋 | Yuan Yang
Author/poet/translator Yuan Yang, born 1962 in Xinxian, Henan Province, China, graduated from Wuhan University and began publishing poetry in 1980. His wide spectrum of writing has appeared in many publications across China, including such poetry anthologies as The Best 100 Chinese Contemporary Poems; Modern Henan Literature, 1917-1990; and A Ten-Year Anthology of Poetry, 2000-2010. Among his own poetry collections are Tree of Youth; Village Girl; Passion for the Dabie Mountains; and Empty Village. His translations into Chinese include poetry by Nobel laureates as well as Pulitzer and T.S.Eliot Prize winners. His own work has also received multiple literary awards. Most recently, his volume Adam’s Apple Orchard: Selected Poems of Robert Hass, released by Jiangsu Literature and Art Press, was named one of “China’s Best Books of 2014”. Yuan Yang lives in Shenzhen, where he is president of the Shenzhen Institute of Continuing Education, and a member of the Chinese Writers’ Association.
