Sylvia Li-chun Lin

Sylvia Li-chun Lin (Shanhua, Tainan, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-born Chinese–English translator and a former associate professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Notre Dame. She has translated over a dozen novels with Howard Goldblatt.

Awards

• Liang Shih-chiu Literary Translation Prize
• 2000 – National Translation Award for translation of Notes of a Desolate Man by Chu T’ien-wen
• 2011 – Man Asian Literary Prize for Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu

Works

Translations

Academic

• Push Open the Door: Poetry from Contemporary China. Copper Canyon Press 2011. .
• (co-edited with Tze-lan D. Sang)

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