Translating Translation: Multilingual Texts in Taiwan's Literature

Speaker: Lin King is a writer and translator based in Taipei and New York. Her fiction has appeared in One Story, Boston Review, and Joyland, among others, and has received the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Her translations from Mandarin and Japanese into English include the graphic novel series The Boy from Clearwater (Chronicle Books, 2023) by Yu Pei-Yun and Zhou Jian-Xin and the novel Taiwan Travelogue (Graywolf Press, 2020) by Yang Shuang-Zi, which won the 2024 National Book Award in Translated Literature. Her debut novel is forthcoming in 2027.

When 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm on 17 April 2026
Building CAS 306, 725 Commonwealth Avenue
Contact Name Cheryl Ong
Contact Email cherylxe@bu.edu