Hongling Zhang is a writer and literary translator living in St. Louis. Her essays and short stories have appeared in Dublin Review of Books, Tampa Review and Selected Stories of North American Chinese Writers. She has published two collaborative translations of literary works from China: Wang in Love and Bondage (SUNY Press, 2007) and The Bathing Women (Scribner, 2012). Her translation of AB Yehoshua’s The Continuing Silence of a Poet was published in China in 2018, and her translation of Alice Munro’s Open Secrets is contracted for publication.
Wang Xiaobo's translator writes about the enduring cult status of this important Chinese writer, who still remains obscure outside his home country. In some ways, Wang is more necessary now than ever.
