Literary translation clearly entails creativity, but the labour of innovation can be prone to erasure. What are some practices that can be further advocated to recognise and support the inventiveness of translingual acts? In this conversation, literary translator Jeremy Tiang and literary studies scholar Chan Cheow Thia will discuss ways of making a more diverse cast of translators and set of stories from under-represented world regions visible to readers.
(Jeremy Tiang will be streaming in.)
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Chan Cheow Thia is assistant professor of Chinese studies at the National University of Singapore. As a literary translator and editor, he has worked with Renditions: A Chinese-English Translation Magazine.
Jeremy Tiang is the translator of over thirty books from Chinese, by authors including Yeng Pway Ngon, Hai Fan, Zhang Yueran, Yan Ge and Lo Yi-Chin. His novel State of Emergency won the Singapore Literature Prize. He also writes and translates plays.
