(LEEDS) The SinoLEEDS Festival - “from 书 to Book”

Sinoist Books

Join us for the first UK festival celebrating Chinese and Sinophone writing

University of Leeds - 1.08 Parkinson Bdg

Curious about the journey a Chinese book takes on the road to translation? Everything from original creation to translation and publishing?In collaboration with <a href="https://writingchinese.leeds.ac.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing</a> at the University of Leeds, we’re excited to announce the program for the inaugural SinoLEEDS Sinophone Writing Festival, an annual festival celebrating the best writing of the Chinese-speaking world.This year’s theme is “from 书 to Book”, where we explore the journey a Chinese language book takes on its way into the hands of an English Language reader.A﻿bout the speakersLiu Zhenyun 刘震云 is an author of novels, short stories and screenplays. His honours and awards are numerous, including the Mao Dun Literature Prize and France’s Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.Liang Hong 梁鸿 is an award-winning writer, essayist and professor. She is known for her trailblazing focus on rural people’s stories.Nicky Harman 韩斌 is an award-winning UK-based translator, passionate about spreading Chinese literature to English. She has brought the likes of Xinran, Yan Ge, A Yi and others to an international audience.Sophie O'Neill is the Managing Director of Inpress, the sales and marketing agency for independent presses funded by Arts Council England. Inpress currently represents 60 brilliant independent publishers to the UK market.David Lammie worked in financial marketing in the 1980s before switching to the world of journalism. In 2014 to became senior fiction editor at ACA Publishing.James Trapp 蒲华杰 has published China-related books on characters, proverbs, astrology, science and technology. His translation works include new versions of Sunzi’s The Art of War and Laozi’s Daodejing, and, for Sinoist Books, Wang Hongjia’s Final Witness and Ma Pinglai’s The Elm Tree.A﻿bout the Organisers <a href="https://writingchinese.leeds.ac.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing</a> is a dynamic network based at the University of Leeds, UK. Bringing together writers, translators, publishers, literary agents and academics working in the field of contemporary Chinese literature, we aim to foster closer links and dialogue, and to help promote contemporary Chinese writing in the English-speaking world.Sinoist Books is an Arts Council England Funded West Sussex-based independent press that publishes only the best in translated Chinese literature and contemporary fiction.

Agenda

Welcome , Setup and Networking 

An author’s perspective: Liang Hong and Liu Zhenyun in conversation.

Writing in China today

Tea and Coffee Break

Experiences of Chinese to English translators

Translating Sinophone Literature

Discussions with publishing professionals

From Story to Book

Reception and launch of 9th Bai Meigui Translation Competition

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