Translated Work
找房子
Title:
In Search of a Flat
Genre:
Fiction
Page Numbers:
148 - 180
First Publication Date:
2013
Publisher:
Association of Stories in Macao ; Centre for Humanities Research, Lingnan University
Language:
Monolingual (English)
Synopsis:
The story encapsulate the life of an ordinary blue-collar worker, who suffers from a chronic disease. Victoria Harbour and the sea, which have figured in literary writings about Hong Kong since its earliest days as a British colony, are used as a motif in this story.
Author
Name:
CHAN, Po-chun 陳寶珍
Alternate Name:
Chan Po Chun
Year of Birth:
1953
Birthplace:
Hong Kong
Gender:
Female
Biography:
Born in Hong Kong in 1953, Chan graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and taught at the Department of Chinese, Hong Kong Baptist University. Her publications include the short story collection 《找房子》[Finding the house] and 《角色的反駁》[Character’s Rebuttal].
Translator
Name:
ZHANG, Yiru 張藝如
Gender:
Female
Translator Biography:
Born in Guangzhou, Zhang received her BA in English Language and Literature from Shenzhen University. She is genuinely interested in literature and participcated in a lot of literary activities and translation projects.
Editor
Name:
KELEN, Christopher (Kit) 客遠文
Birthplace:
Australia
Editor Biography:
Kit Kelen is Professor of English at the University of Macau where he taught Creative Writing, Children’s Literature and Poetry related courses since 2000. Volumes of Kit Kelen’s poetry have been published in various languages. The most recent of Kelen’s English language volumes is A Pocket Kit. At the time of publication, Kelen had a painting exhibition Imagen de Nada showing at the University of Minho in Braga.
Link to Editor biography:
Name:
WONG, Shuk-han 黃淑嫻
Birthplace:
Hong Kong
Editor Biography:
Wong received her BA in English Literature from the Baptist University, MA in Cinema Studies from the University of East Anglia, MA in Communication from the University of Leicester and PhD in comparative literature from the University of Hong Kong. Wong used to be the Editor-in-Chief of the Hong Kong Film Archive. She was awarded fellowship to pursue her post-doctoral research at the Chinese Department of the University of Tokyo and was Assistant Professor at Lingnan University at the time of publication. She has written and edited multiple scholarly volumes on cinema and literature, including Hong Kong Cinema and Literature: Writer, Film ad Adaptation.
Link to Editor biography:
Name:
SONG, Chris 宋子江
Birthplace:
China
Editor 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
Link to Editor biography:
Published Date of Source Text:
1989