This panel brings together translators who have all translated English Sing Lit titles into Chinese who will share their personal experiences and insights into the challenges and rewards of translating, and discuss how they have overcome the creative issues involved in bringing these works to a Chinese audience.
(Chen Si'an will be streaming in.)
![[Moderator] Ang Jin Yong](/images/SGTS2023-Speakers/Ang_Jin_Yong.png)
Ang Jin Yong is born in 1991 and is the current editor for TrendLit Publishing. He has published his poetry collection Medical Records in 2021, and has edited numerous anthologies and works including Never Before—50 Essential Poems, A Long Walk, The Gentle Art of Teaching etc.
Chen Si'an is a playwright, theatre director, short story writer, and literary translator. She is the founder and artistic director of the Sound and Fury Play Reading Festival. She has written four collections of short stories and five plays. Her plays were performed at the Royal Court Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival, National Theatre Company of China, Taiwan, Beijing International Fringe Festival, etc.
Chua Sok Koon was interviewed by Lianhe Zaobao and invited to write short stories for publication in their literary column Wenyi Cheng in 2016, and in 2017, her short story won Lianhe Zaobao's "Literary Work of the Year". In 2020, she won the Jury Prize in Taiwan’s "Liang Shiqiu Translation Competition". She is in the process of translating Balli Kaur Jaswal's Sugarbread into Chinese.
