Taiwanese author Terao Tetsuya (寺尾哲也) and translator Lin King (金翎) are to showcase their work at the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA).
King, the English translator of Taiwanese author Yang Shuang-zi’s (楊?子) Taiwan Travelogue (臺灣漫遊錄), is to speak at two forums at the festival on Saturday.
In the first forum at 4pm at Northrop Frye Hall, King is to discuss “Literature in Translation,” with Beninese-Canadian writer Ryad Assani-Razaki and Singaporean writer Jeremy Tiang (程異), and in the second, at 6:30pm at Emmanuel College, she would speak on “Echoes Across Eras,” along with Korean-Canadian writer Jinwoo Park.
Photo: screen grab from Toronto International Festival of Authors’ Web site
Published by Graywolf Press in November last year, King’s translation of Taiwan Travelogue has received critical acclaim, winning the National Book Award for Translated Literature and the Asia Society’s Baifang Schell Book Prize.
King has also been shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Prose and the First Translation Prize by the American Literary Translators Association.
Terao, also known as Tsao Sheng-hao (曹盛濠), is on Saturday at 2:30pm to attend a panel discussion on “Stories Without Borders,” speaking alongside Canadian author Sheung-King, the pen name of Aaron Tang, at Victoria College’s Alumni Hall.
Terao’s Spent Bullets (子彈是餘生), which won the Golden Book Award and the New Bud Award at the Taiwan Literature Awards, is set in Taiwan and Silicon Valley. It explores themes of ambition and the search for meaning in contemporary life.
The English translation by Kevin Wang (王可) was released by HarperVia on Oct. 14.
TIFA, founded in 1974, is Canada’s largest and longest-running literary festival.
This year’s edition, which started yesterday and runs through Sunday, is to feature about 100 events — including talks, readings and masterclasses by writers from more than 10 countries, the festival’s Web site says.
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