Nicky Harman

Nicky Harman is a UK-based prize-winning literary translator, working from Chinese to English and focussing on contemporary fiction, literary non-fiction, and occasionally poetry, by a wide variety of authors. When not translating, she spends time promoting contemporary Chinese fiction to English-language readers. She volunteers for [https://paper-republic.org Paper Republic], a non-profit registered in the UK, where she is also a trustee. She writes blogs (for instance [http://www.asianbooksblog.com/ Asian Books Blog]), give talks and lectures, and takes part in literary events and festivals, especially with the [https://writingchinese.leeds.ac.uk Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing]. She also mentors new translators, teaches summer schools (Norwich, London, Warwick and Bristol), and judges translation competitions. She tweets, with Helen Wang, as the China Fiction Bookclub @cfbcuk.

She taught on the MSc in Translation at Imperial College until 2011 and was co-chair of the Translators Association (Society of Authors) 2014–2017. Provided by Wikipedia