{"id":3816,"date":"2017-07-12T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T01:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2017-07-12T08:55:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T00:55:40","slug":"holtons-yang-lian-pen-translates-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3816","title":{"rendered":"Holton’s Yang Lian PEN Translates Award Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>English PEN has announced its latest list of PEN Translates award winners<\/a>, and Brian Holton’s translation of Narrative <\/em>Poem<\/em> \u53d9\u4e8b\u8bd7 by Yang Lian \u6768\u70bc (Bloodaxe) is one of the winners!<\/p>\n

Chinese is also represented in Nicky Harman’s forthcoming translation of Our Story: A Memoir of Love and Life in China<\/em> \u5e73\u5982\u7f8e\u68e0 : \u6211\u4fe9\u7684\u6545\u4e8b , by Rao Pingru \u9976\u5e73\u5982.<\/p>\n

Click the image to the right for the full list.<\/p>\n

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English PEN has announced its latest list of PEN Translates award winners, and Brian Holton’s translation of Narrative Poem \u53d9\u4e8b\u8bd7 by Yang Lian \u6768\u70bc (Bloodaxe) is one of the winners! Chinese is also represented in Nicky Harman’s forthcoming translation of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[174,399,1878,21],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-Zy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4144,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4144","url_meta":{"origin":3816,"position":0},"title":"Klein on Holton’s Narrative Poem by Yang Lian","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"July 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"My review of Narrative Poem \u6558\u4e8b\u8bd7, by Yang Lian \u6768\u70bc and translated by Brian Holton (Bloodaxe, 2017), is out in the new issue of Translation and Literature\u00a0(Vol. 27, issue 2). 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