Nicky Harman

Nicky Harman is a UK-based prize-winning literary translator, working from Chinese to English.

Life and career

Harman studied Chinese at the University of Leeds, and first went to China in 1974.[1]

She taught on the MSc in Translation at Imperial College London until 2011, and has been a full-time literary translator since then. She focuses on fiction, poetry and occasionally literary non-fiction, by authors such as Chen Xiwo, Han Dong, Hong Ying, Jia Pingwa, Dorothy Tse, Xinran, Yan Geling and Zhang Ling. She has been a contributor to the literary magazines Chutzpah, and Words Without Borders, and also organizes translation-focused events, mentors new translators and was one of the judges for the Harvill Secker Young Translators Prize 2012, and for the Bai Meigui Translation Prize (White Rose) for Chinese-English Translation, 2015 and 2016. She is also a contributor to the website Paper Republic,[2] and founded the China Fiction Book Club in 2010.[3] She is currently Co-Chair of the Translators' Association of the Society of Authors.[4] She is an active member of the not-for-profit website Paper Republic [5] and contributes to the series of translated short stories and essays called READ PAPER REPUBLIC.[6] She blogs regularly on Asian Books Blog and occasionally elsewhere.

Awards and honors
  • Shortlisted for the 2021 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, for her co-translation with Natascha Bruce of Xu Xiaobin's work.[7]
  • Longlisted for the FT/Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices Awards 2016, with Xu Xiaobin's Crystal Wedding.[8]
  • Winner of the Mao Tai Cup People's Literature Chinese-English translation prize 2015. Link here: [in Chinese][9]
  • Longlisted for the 2015 Best Translated Book Award Fiction BTBA Longlist, with Dorothy Tse's Snow and Shadow.[10]
  • Winner of first prize in the 2013 China International Translation Contest, Chinese-to-English section, with Jia Pingwa’s "Backflow River" (贾平凹: 《倒流河》)[11][12]
  • Won a PEN Translation Fund Award (2006) for her translation of Banished! by Han Dong, which was subsequently long-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008.[13]

Translations

A list of her published translations can be found on her Paper Republic homepage.

gollark: Also, people complain about my use of `map` and such, and oneliners.
gollark: Specifically, there is no documentation.
gollark: Mine is mostly just impossible to work on for others due to structure and documentation.
gollark: This is why I am aiming to avoid the software industry.
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References
  1. "The translator championing Chinese women writers for English readers". South China Morning Post. 2020-03-24. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
  2. http://paper-republic.org/
  3. http://paper-republic.org/nickyharman/china-fiction-book-club-in-london/
  4. http://www.societyofauthors.org/ta-committee
  5. https://paper-republic.org/
  6. http://paper-republic.org/pubs/read/
  7. https://u.osu.edu/mclc/2020/07/06/newman-prize-2021-nominees/
  8. https://live.ft.com/Events/2016/FT-OppenheimerFunds-Emerging-Voices-Awards
  9. http://www.chinawriter.com.cn/pic/2015/2015-12-12/261165.html
  10. http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/index.php?id=13982
  11. http://www.tac-online.org.cn/ch/tran/2014-08/21/content_7169666.htm
  12. https://paper-republic.org/pubs/read/backflow-river/
  13. http://worldbookshelf.englishpen.org/writers-in-translation-translators-Nicky-Harman
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