Translated Work
迷遇
Title:
A Curious Encounter
Genre:
Poetry
Book Title:
Page Numbers:
225
First Publication Date:
2017
Publisher:
Blacksmith Books
Language:
Monolingual (English)
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Author
Name:
CHOW, Hon-fai 周漢輝
Alternate Name:
CHOW, Hon Fai ; 波希米亞 ; Bohemia
Birthplace:
Hong Kong
Gender:
Male
Biography:
Chow is a Hong Kong poet and prose writer who usually writes under the pen name Bohemia (波希米亞). He started his writing career when he submitted his works to the literary magazine 《秋螢詩刊》(Qiu Ying Shi Kan). He attended the International Writing Programme at the University of Iowa in 2018. His publications include the poetry collection 《長鏡頭》[Long Shot].
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Translator
Name:
SONG, Chris 宋子江
Gender:
Male
Translator Biography:
Song is a poet, translator and editor based in Hong Kong. He has published four collections of poetry and many volumes of poetry in translation. Song received an “Extraordinary Mention” at Italy’s UNESCO-recognized Nosside World Poetry Prize 2013. More recently he won the Young Artist Award at the 2017 Hong Kong Arts Development Awards, presented by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. He is now Executive Director of the Hong Kong International Poetry Nights and Editor-in-Chief of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine. He also serves as an Arts Advisor for the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
Editor
Name:
PEN Hong Kong Anthology Editorial Committee
Birthplace:
Hong Kong
Editor Biography:
PEN Hong Kong is one of the 148 centers of PEN International. Founded in 2016, it is a multilingual society of Hong Kong-based writers, poets, publishers, editors, translators, journalists and academics, aimed at promoting literature and defending the freedom of expression in Hong Kong.
Link to Editor biography:
Name:
HO, Tammy Lai-Ming
Birthplace:
Hong Kong
Editor Biography:
Tammy Lai-Ming Ho is the founding co-editor of the literary publication Cha: An Asian Literary Journal and an editor of the academic journal Hong Kong Studies. Having been named Visiting Scholar at the University of St Andrews, she is also a recipient of the Young Artist Award in Literary Arts presented by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
Link to Editor biography:
Name:
NG, Jason Y.
Birthplace:
Hong Kong
Editor Biography:
Jason Y. Ng is a Hong Kong-based lawyer, university professor and writer. He is the bestselling author of Hong Kong State of Mind and No City for Slow Men. His latest tome, Umbrellas in Bloom, is the first book available in English chronicling the 2014 Occupy movement.
Link to Editor biography:
Name:
SARAN, Mishi
Birthplace:
India
Editor Biography:
Mishi Saran was born in India and spent the first 10 years of her life in New Delhi. Since then, she has lived in Switzerland, Indonesia, the United States, China, Hong Kong, and Korea. Following an undergraduate degree in Chinese Studies from Wellesley College, she worked in Hong Kong as a news reporter and as a freelance writer.
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Name:
SCHAFER, Sarah
Editor Biography:
Graduated from Syracuse University, Sarah Schaefer has been a writer at various news agencies. She served as one of the executive committees at PEN Hong Kong, where she co-edited an anthology about post-colonial Hong Kong. She is currently Senior Global Digital Editor at the UNHCR.
Name:
WONG, Nicholas
Birthplace:
Hong Kong
Editor Biography:
Nicholas Wong is the author of Crevasse , the winner of Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry. He is also the recipient of the Hong Kong Young Artist Award in Literary Arts, Australian Book Review’s Peter Porter Poetry Prize and Renaissance Foundation Prize (Literary Arts). Wong has contributed writing to the radio composition project “One of the Two Stories, Or Both” at Manchester International Festival 2017, and the catalogue of the exhibition “One Hand Clapping” at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
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Published Date of Source Text:
2017
Target Text Reference:
(First publication)