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Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social · 2d

Yan Lianke may not be a Nobel laureate (yet!!) but he's the hedgehog of my heart 🦔 🦔

www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10...

Notes from a Hedgehog by Yan Lianke

October 7, 2025 – “Since turning sixty, I’ve thought about death every single day.”

www.theparisreview.org

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Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social · 11d

Philadelphia: worldeditions.org/event/jeremy...

Pittsburgh: cityofasylum.org/litfest-2025/

Vancouver: writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...

Toronto: festivalofauthors.ca/festival-202...

17 Oct, 5pm
Making Worlds, Philadelphia
19 Oct, 2.30pm
City of Asylum, Pittsburgh
24-26 Oct
Vancouver Writers Fest
31 Oct-2 Nov
Toronto International
Festival of Authors

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 15d

“Granny Liu squats by the grave and says, ‘Look, say you’re right and women do live longer, then fine—you can die first, but you’re making lunch tomorrow.’ “

From “Plants, Stones, Dirt, and Sky” by Yan Lianke, translated by @jeremytiang.bsky.social. buff.ly/RtunfjN

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Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social · 14d

"She held nothing back, writing with such force that it felt as if she were ripping through the paper. When I began writing fiction, I felt that only by tearing the paper could I leave evidence that I had existed in this world."
~Zhang Yueran on Eileen Chang

www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/09...

What You Know Most Deeply: On Eileen Chang’s Little Reunions by Zhang Yueran

September 26, 2025 – “ ‘Little Reunions ought to be burned,’ Eileen Chang wrote to her friend and literary executor, Stephen Soong, in 1976, the year she finished what would be her last novel.”

www.theparisreview.org

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Pierre-Yves Baubry 博磊 @pybaubry.bsky.social · 23d

The Taiwan Academy in Los Angeles is collaborating with @littranslate.bsky.social to host the ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program. Applications are open until Nov. 30 for one English-language translator of literature from Taiwan, who will undertake the mentorship in 2026.

Applications open for ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program

www.moc.gov.tw

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Pierre-Yves Baubry 博磊 @pybaubry.bsky.social · Sep 10

From 1949 to 1987, Taiwan has spent 13,936 days under martial law.
Since 1987, the country has now spent 13,938 days and counting experiencing democracy and rule of law.
就在今天，台灣的「解嚴時間」終於超越了「戒嚴時間」。

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · Sep 2

📣 The 2026 Emerging Translator Mentorship Program submission portals are open!

The ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator.

Apply by 11/30: buff.ly/cpduT69

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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · Aug 11

Understanding Taiwanese Literature and Films with Jenna Tang (Zoom) Starts Thursday, January 8th, 2026
writing-workshops-org.myshopify.com/collections/...

6-Week Taiwanese Literature & Film Seminar with Expert Jenna Tang

Explore Taiwanese literature & films in this 6-week online seminar. Learn from translator Jenna Tang. Indigenous voices, LGBTQ+ writers & more. Join now!

writing-workshops-org.myshopify.com

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Chris Song @chrissonghk.bsky.social · Jul 28

With Ting Guo, I’ve co‑authored a new article titled “The ‘Ueno Chizuko Phenomenon’: Translating Feminist Modernity Across East Asia” in the “Translation Studies as Methods” special issue uof Chinese Literature and Thought Today (Vol. 56, Nos. 1–2). See www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

The “Ueno Chizuko Phenomenon”: Translating Feminist Modernity Across East Asia

The “Ueno Chizuko phenomenon” describes the popularity and influence of Japanese feminist scholar Ueno Chizuko in East Asia, particularly in China and South Korea, through translations of her work....

www.tandfonline.com

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Tony Hao @tonyhao.bsky.social · Jul 22

My translation of poetry and prose by Liu Chen-Chun 劉宸君, the late Taiwanese transgender poet and writer whose life was tragically cut short by a mountain trekking incident at age 19.

from “Before the Snowmelt” 我所告訴你關於那座山的一切

The Offing @theoffingmag.bsky.social · Jul 2

“And if you get lost and walk into your heart yourself, then it’ll be your turn to become a mountain."

Four Excerpts from "Before the Snowmelt" by Liu Chen-Chun, translated from Chinese by Tony Hao.

theoffingmag.com/translation/...

Four Excerpts from "Before the Snowmelt" - The Offing

Translation - The Offing Magazine

theoffingmag.com

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · Jun 24

Election worker: “Emily Mandel. Isn’t that a writer’s name?”
Me: “I’m a writer.”
Election worker: “Oh, I was thinking Hilary Mantel, never mind”

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Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social · Jun 20

State of Emergency by Jeremy Tiang book tour. Thursday 26 June, 7pm, with Yu-Mei Balasingamchow at Singapore Unbound, KGB Bar, NYC. Friday 27 June, 6pm, with Reuben Gelley Newman at Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, NYC. Thursday 10 July, 7pm, with Dorothy Tse at Brookline Booksmith, Brookline MA, Saturday 12 July, 6pm, with Ye Chun at Riff Raff, Providence RI.

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Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social · Jun 19

Writing represents an act of resistance: it militates against all that is base and hateful, against death and annihilation. If writing is life, and life itself has turned into war, what more is left for us to write?
~Nasser Rabah, interviewed by Alex Tan

proteanmag.com/2025/06/16/t...

To Gaza: An Interview with Nasser Rabah • Protean Magazine

Writer and translator Alex Tan speaks to renowned Gazan poet Nasser Rabah on his new collection, Gaza: The Poem Said its Piece, selected and translated by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal, and Khaled Al Hil...

proteanmag.com

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Jay Boss Rubin @jaybossrubin.bsky.social · Jun 17

It's pub day for Rosa Mistika—and here is a lengthy interview about the novel (and much else!) with @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social chireviewofbooks.com/2025/06/17/t...

The Translator’s Voice — Jay Boss Rubin on Translating Euphrase Kezilahabi’s “Rosa Mistika” - Chicago Review of Books

The Translator’s Voice is a column from editor Ian J. Battaglia, dedicated to global literature and the translators who work tirelessly and too often thanklessly to bring these books to the English-re...

chireviewofbooks.com

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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · Jun 17

"Just like how in the novel’s opening there’s this household within a village, village within an island, and island within a lake, there are...different kinds of telescoping points of views."

Ian Battaglia's interview with @jaybossrubin.bsky.social is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/06/17/t...

The Translator’s Voice — Jay Boss Rubin on Translating Euphrase Kezilahabi’s “Rosa Mistika” - Chicago Review of Books

The Translator’s Voice is a column from editor Ian J. Battaglia, dedicated to global literature and the translators who work tirelessly and too often thanklessly to bring these books to the English-re...

chireviewofbooks.com

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Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · Jun 16

‘A number is a mystery, which God solves.’

For Bloomsday, James Joyce and Adolf Hoffmeister argue about a Czech translation of Finnegans Wake, in a rare interview from 1930.

granta.com/the-game-of-...

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Jay Boss Rubin @jaybossrubin.bsky.social · Jun 12

I wrote about translating the opening sentence of Rosa Mistika for the Asymptote Blog www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/06...

When There’s No Fog: Translating Euphrase Kezilahabi’s Rosa Mistika - Asymptote Blog

I have to look back across a foggy channel of my own to explain how I came to translate this classic Swahili novel. . .

www.asymptotejournal.com

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Tony Hao @tonyhao.bsky.social · Jun 6

My review of @jeremytiang.bsky.social’s fabulous translation of HUNTER, short story collection by Dongbei (Northeastern Chinese) writer Shuang Xuetao. Thank you @fullstopmag.bsky.social

www.full-stop.net/2025/06/04/r...

Hunter – Shuang Xuetao

Tiang allows readers to build trust with Shuang as a Dongbei-raised, Beijing-based writer who tells heart-felt stories with abundant humor and little outwardly emotional display.

www.full-stop.net

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · Jun 3

I was interviewed by Paraphraxis Podcast (Harvard Comp Lit) about translating Bora Chung’s YOUR UTOPIA out now from @algonquinbooks.bsky.social

“Writing and translation is a private act… PUBLISHING is collaborative.”

Anton Hur on Your Utopia by Bora Chung

In this episode, translator and debut novelist Anton Hur discusses his English translation of Your Utopia (Algonquin Books, 2024), a fantastical and moving collection by South Korean author Bora Chung...

www.paraphrasispodcast.com

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · Jun 2

feeling really sad/angry about the arrest of BL authors in China who write for Haitang

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Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social · May 23

Shuang Xuetao's Hunter reviewed in Harper's Magazine

harpers.org/archive/2025...

sometimes felt like I was reading Jesus' Son with the drugs replaced by magical realism. Still, Shuang's prose, translated from the Chinese by Jeremy TIang, is hypnotic and taut, and cultural differences aside, S----- is a familiar city, gutted by globalism, its blank-faced sleepwalkers at once idiosyncratic and instantly recognizable. "Now everyone in the ambulance had their eyes shut," Shuang writes, "and we entered a common darkness."

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · May 22

“The tragedy, the novel suggests, is not that people prefer their shackles but that they are trapped by hope—hope that love or duty will transcend pain.”

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho reviews Hon Lai Chu’s new dystopia.

@myetcetera.bsky.social‬

worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...

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Transit Books @transitbooks.bsky.social · May 3

Along with many other nonprofit arts organizations, we learned last night that our grant from the National Endowment for the Arts—$40,000 toward the publication of our books in 2025—has been terminated. While this news was not unexpected, its message was chilling.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · May 2

Every day I buy
a can of pineapple with an expiration date of May 1
because May loves pineapple
and May 1 is my birthday.
I tell myself
that if she doesn’t come back
by the time I’ve bought 30 cans,
then our love will expire too

Chungking Express 重慶森林
dir. Wong Kar Wai
#everynightapoem #ofsorts

A nine-grid sequence of scenes from Chungking Express(1994)

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