Translated Work
剝海膽
Title:
Opening Sea Urchins
Genre:
Poetry
Page Numbers:
54 - 55
First Publication Date:
2007
Publisher:
Hong Kong International Literary Festival & Chameleon Press
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Author
Name:
LEUNG, Ping-kwan 梁秉鈞
Alternate Name:
也斯 ; 心猿 ; Ye Si ; Xin Yuan
Year of Birth:
1949
Year of Death:
2013
Birthplace:
Guangdong, China
Gender:
Male
Biography:
Born in 1949, Leung was one of Hong Kong's best-known cultural icons. A versatile writer, his works ranged from poetry to novels, including《布拉格的明信片》 (Postcards from Prague) (1990), 《半途：梁秉鈞詩選》(Mid-way: Leung Ping Kwan's Poetry Collection and 《後殖民食物與愛情》(Postcolonial Affairs of Food and the Heart).
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Translator
Name:
LAI, Jane C. C. 黎翠珍
Gender:
Female
Translator Biography:
Lai studied at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Bristol. She taught English Literature and Translation at the University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Baptist University until her retirement in 2004. She has translated works of a number of local authors, including Leung Ping-Kwan (Ye Si) and Xiao Si into English. In 2009, she was awarded “Outstanding Translator Award” at the Eighteenth Hong Kong Stage Drama Awards by the Hong Kong Federation of Drama Societies.
Editor
Name:
MCKIRDY, David
Birthplace:
Scotland
Editor Biography:
Born in Scotland in 1956, McKirdy spent his childhood in Hong Kong. He arrived in England for the first time as a twenty-year-old and stayed for five years before deciding to permanently move to Hong Kong. He has published a number of poetry collections, some of which depict the relationship between the colonisers and colonised in British Hong Kong in the 1960s. He also co-edited multiple anthologies and is one of the organisers of the group Poetry OutLoud Hong Kong.
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Name:
GORDON, Peter
Birthplace:
United States
Editor Biography:
Gordon is editor of the Asian Review of Books. A publisher and entrepreneur, he has been active in technology, culture and international trade and investment. He is the co-author of The Silver Way: China, Spanish America and the Birth of Globalisation, 1565–1815. He has been a resident of Hong Kong since 1985.
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Source Text Reference:
收入原載《象牙塔外》第十四期，1977年5月1日。
收入《半途——梁秉鈞詩選》(1995)，頁84。
收入《帶一枚苦瓜旅行》(2002)，頁48,50。
Published Date of Source Text:
1977
Target Text Reference:
Travelling with a Bitter Melon (2002), pp.49,51