Sylvia Li-chun Lin (Shanhua, Tainan, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-born Chinese–English translator and a former associate professor of Chinese Literature at the

University of Colorado Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University o ...

and the

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. She has translated over a dozen novels with her husband Howard Goldblatt.

Awards

* Liang Shih-chiu Literary Translation Prize *2000 – National Translation Award for translation of ''Notes of a Desolate Man'' by Chu T’ien-wen *2011 –

Man Asian Literary Prize The Man Asian Literary Prize was an annual literary award between 2007 and 2012, given to the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in English or translated into English, and published in the previous calendar year. It is awarded to write ...

for ''Three Sisters'' by Bi Feiyu

Works

Translations

Academic

* *''Push Open the Door: Poetry from Contemporary China.'' Copper Canyon Press 2011. . * (co-edited with Tze-lan D. Sang)

References

Sources

* * Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Writers from Tainan Chinese–English translators Tamkang University alumni St. John's University (New York City) alumni University of Oregon alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Notre Dame faculty University of Colorado Boulder faculty Taiwanese emigrants to the United States Literary translators Taiwanese translators 20th-century Taiwanese writers 20th-century Taiwanese women writers 21st-century Taiwanese writers 21st-century Taiwanese women writers {{Taiwan-writer-stub