British translator
Natascha Bruce
Occupation Translator Nationality British Alma mater University of Cambridge Period 2011 - Genre Fiction Notable works
Lake Like a Mirror (2019)
Owlish (2023)
Natascha Bruce is a British writer and translator of Chinese fiction and nonfiction.[ 1] She currently resides in Amsterdam .
Biography
Bruce graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2010 with a Bachelor's degree in Chinese, focusing on contemporary Chinese literature.[ 2] She began working as a translator in Taiwan, translating subtitles and screenplays into English. In 2015, she was a joint winner with Michael Day of the inaugural Bai Meigui Translation Prize for her translation of Dorothy Tse 's short story Chicken (鸡). In 2016 she was a recipient of the American Literary Translators Association 's Emerging Translator Mentorship for a Singaporean language.[ 3] [ 4] Since then, she has translated a number of works by writers including Xu Xiaobin , Ho Sok Fong , Can Xue , Patigül , Xie Ding , and Yeng Pway Ngon .[ 5] [ 6] [ 7] Her translation of Ho's short story collection Lake Like a Mirror was shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2020.[ 8] [ 9]
Bruce's other translations of Tse's work have been published in numerous journals; in 2019 they were awarded the 2019 Academy of American Poets Poems in Translation Prize for Cloth Birds , an author and translator residency at the Leeds Centre for Chinese Writing in 2020.[ 10] [ 11] [ 12] Her translation of Can Xue 's novella, Mystery Train , was published by Sublunary Editions in 2022.[ 13] That same year, Bruce was awarded a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for the publication of Tse's first novel, Owlish [zh ] , which was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2023.[ 14] [ 15]
Selected bibliography
Yeng, Pway Ngon (2019), Lonely Face : a novel , London: Balestier Press, ISBN 9781911221180
Patigül (2019), Bloodline , Beijing: China Translation & Publishing House, ISBN 9787500159650
That We May Live : speculative Chinese fiction , San Francisco, CA: Two Lines Press, 2020, ISBN 9781949641004
Ho, Sok Fong (2020), Lake Like a Mirror , San Francisco, CA: Two Line Press, ISBN 9781931883986
Xu, Xiaobin (2021), A Classic Tragedy: Short Stories , London: Balestier Press, ISBN 9781911221289
Can, Xue (2022), Mystery Train , Seattle, WA: Sublunary Editions, IBSN 9781955190404
Dorothy Tse (2023), Owlish [zh ] , Fitzcarraldo Editions /Graywolf Press , ISBN 9781804270349/ISBN 9781644452356
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