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^[1] and the University of Notre Dame.^[2] She has translated over a dozen novels with her husband Howard Goldblatt.

Awards

• Liang Shih-chiu Literary Translation Prize^[3]
• 2000 – National Translation Award for translation of Notes of a Desolate Man by Chu T’ien-wen^[4]
• 2011 – Man Asian Literary Prize for Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu^[5]

Works

Translations

Academic

• Representing Atrocity: The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film. Columbia University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-231-14360-8.
• Push Open the Door: Poetry from Contemporary China. Copper Canyon Press 2011. ISBN 978-1556593307.
• Documenting Taiwan on Film: Issues and Methods in New Documentaries. Routledge. 2012. ISBN 978-0-415-68511-5. (co-edited with Tze-lan D. Sang)

References

1. "Sylvia Li-chun Lin". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 2021-02-17.
2. "Author". US Macmillan. Retrieved 2021-02-17.
3. Dame, University of Notre (6 May 2011). "Chinese Professors Make Winning Translation Team // College of Arts and Letters // University of Notre Dame". College of Arts and Letters. Retrieved 2021-02-17.
4. "NTA Winners | The American Literary Translators Association". www.literarytranslators.org. Retrieved 2021-02-17.
5. "Chinese novelist Bi Feiyu's Three Sisters Wins MAN Asian Literary Prize". Publishing Perspectives. 2011-03-18. Retrieved 2021-02-17.

Sources

• Cohorst, Kate (2011-05-06). "Chinese Professors Make Winning Translation Team". University of Notre Dame.
• "Sylvia Li–chun Lin, Assistant Professor". University of Notre Dame. Archived from the original on 2008-04-13.