Translated Work
形象香港
Title:
Images of Hong Kong
Genre:
Poetry
Book Title:
Page Numbers:
234
First Publication Date:
2017
Publisher:
Blacksmith Books
Language:
Monolingual (English)
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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:
OSING, Gordon T. 歌頓．奧城
Gender:
Male
Translator Biography:
Osing is a poet who taught in the Creative Writing Programme at Memphis State University and directed the River City Writer Series, which he founded in 1977. His poems and co-translations from the Chinese have appeared in numerous journals and literary magazines including The Southern Review and The New Yorker. His books include Crossing Against the Sun: After Two Years in Central China and Hong Kong, The Water Radical and Apo/Calpyso: Lakeside in Delta Bluffs Woods, a Four Years' Dao in the Blues.
Name:
LEUNG, Ping-kwan 梁秉鈞
Gender:
Male
Translator 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).
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.
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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.
Link to Editor biography:
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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Source Text Reference:
收入《香港文學》第66期，1990年6月5日，頁33-35。
Published Date of Source Text:
1990
Target Text Reference:
Eight Hong Kong Poets (2015)