Strange Beasts of China

About Astrid CarvelGe YanYan Ge

Yan Ge was born in Sichuan China in 1984. She is a fiction writer in both Chinese and English. Yans first short story collection was published in China when she was seventeen. She is the author of thirteen books including six novels. She has received numerous awards including the prestigious Maodun Literature Prize (Best Young Writer). She was named by Peoples Literature magazine as one of twenty future literature masters in China. Her work has been translated into English French and German among other languages. She lives in Norwich UK and is fluent in English. Jeremy Tiang is a Singaporean writer translator and playwright based in New York City. He has translated more than ten books from Chinese including novels by Zhang Yueran Yeng Pway Ngon and Chan Ho-Kei and is the recipient of a PEN/Heim Grant an NEA Literary Translation Fellowship and a People's Literature Prize Mao-Tai Cup for Translation. He has also translated plays by Wei Yu-Chia Zhan Jie and Xu Nuo. He is the author of a short story collection (It Never Rains on National Day shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2015) and a novel (State of Emergency Epigram Books 2017). Jeremy Tiang is a Singaporean writer translator and playwright based in New York City. He has translated more than ten books from Chinese including novels by Zhang Yueran Yeng Pway Ngon and Chan Ho-Kei and is the recipient of a PEN/Heim Grant an NEA Literary Translation Fellowship and a People's Literature Prize Mao-Tai Cup for Translation. He has also translated plays by Wei Yu-Chia Zhan Jie and Xu Nuo. His own plays include Salesman The Last Days of Limehouse and A Dream of Red Pavilions (adapted from the novel by Cao Xueqin) and he is the author of a short story collection (It Never Rains on National Day shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2015) and a novel (State of Emergency Epigram Books 2017). One of the most acclaimed and active translators into English he was recently honoured as the London Book Fairs inaugural Translator in Residence.