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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 both U.S. and Chinese universities, serving as Fulbright professor at Peking Univ. and Fulbright Senior Scholar at Natl. Taiwan Univ. In addition to numerous U.S. honors for his poetry, including the Pablo Neruda Prize, he has received a U.S. National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation as well as Hong Kong Arts Development Council awards. He and Diana Shi co-direct Pangolin House. Their 2017 U.S. release of Darkening Mirror: New & Selected Poems by Wang Jiaxin, shortlisted for the American Literary Translators Assoc. Lucien Stryk Award, was followed by Crossing the Harbour, a bilingual anthology of ten contemporary Hong Kong Chinese-language poets. Based on work from their NTU creative writing translation workshop, they are now composing a bilingual anthology of contemporary Taiwan poetry.

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’s renderings of Chinese-language, contemporary American, and other poetries have appeared widely east and west. She and George O’Connell co-edited and translated the 2008 Atlanta Review China Issue. Their 2017 U.S. release of Darkening Mirror: New & Selected Poems by Wang Jiaxin, shortlisted for the American Literary Translators Assoc. Lucien Stryk Award, was followed by Crossing the Harbour, a bilingual anthology of ten contemporary Hong Kong Chinese-language poets. Co-recipient of a U.S. National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation, and two Hong Kong Arts Development Council awards, she also received the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Dawson Lee Memorial Prize. With George O’Connell, she operated a 2019 Fulbright creative writing translation workshop at Natl. Taiwan Univ., focused on contemporary Taiwan poetry.

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.