Translated Work
食薯者——看梵谷的 The Potato Eaters
Title:
The Potato Eaters - On 'The Potato Eaters' by Van Gough
First Publication Date:
1998
Publisher:
Hong Kong Arts Centre & Provisional Regional Council
Language:
Bilingual (Chinese-English)
Author
Alternate Name:
WONG, Leung Wo
Biography:
Born in Hong Kong in 1963, Wong worked as a part-time instructor of a poetry workshop at the Hong Kong Arts Centre in 1995. He also founded the poetry journal 《我們詩刊》[We] and co-edited 《呼吸詩刊》 [Breathe]. His publications include the award-winning poems 《柚燈》[Pomelo Lamp] and 《魚咒》[Fish Curses].
Translator
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
Editor Biography:
Lam has been a member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists since 1984. She obtained her MA degree from City University in 1997. At the time of publication, she was working with the Hong Kong Arts Centre as Education Programme Director. She organised the First Hong Kong International Poetry Festival in January 1997.
Source Text Reference:
收入《詩雙月刊》總第32期 (復刊號),1997年1月1日,頁9-10。
收入《樹根頌》(1997),頁110-12。
Published Date of Source Text:
1997