A BookBlast 10x10 Tour LIVE event from Waterstones Liverpool (01.11.2018) Feat. Roh-Suan Tung, publisher, Balestier Press (chair). Founded in 2014, Balestier Press publishes Asian literature in translation, young-adult fiction, and picture books.

WITH Nicky Harman, a UK-based prize-winning literary translator, working from Chinese to English. Winner of the Mao Tai Cup People’s Literature Chinese-English translation prize 2015, and of the 2013 China International Translation Contest, Chinese-to-English section, with Jia Pingwa’s 'Backflow River'.

AND Georgia de Chamberet stepping in as interviewer, since award-winning young author, Yan Ge, was very ill in bed with flu. Topics: The availability of Asian literature on the UK market; the translator opens windows on to the world; mothers and matriarchs in Chinese families; translating colourful bad language when translating 'The Chilli Bean Paste Clan'; sexism and the #MeToo generation; readings in Chinese and English with audience participation; favourite characters in Chinese literature published by Balestier such as 'The Pidgin Warrior' (a satire of nationalism); 'Miss Sophie's Diary' the earliest feminist book translated in the 1930s; 'The Stolen Bicycle' by a Taiwanese novelist longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018; the translator's life. Title focus: 'The Chilli Bean Paste Clan', the recipient of an English PEN Award – available from www.balestier.com

Presented by Georgia de Chamberet | Produced by Ben Fiagbe.

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