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Jeremy Tiang (he/ they) is a novelist, playwright and literary translator. He has translated over thirty books from across the Chinese-speaking world, including novels by Yeng Pway Ngon, Yan Ge, Lo Yi-Chin, Liu Xinwu and Zhang Yueran. His translation of Zou Jingzhi’s Ninth Building was longlisted for the International Booker Prize and his translation of Ping Lu’s To the East of the East was longlisted for the National Book Award. His plays include Salesman之死 (Obie Award for Outstanding New Play) and A Dream of Red Pavilions, and translations of plays by Chen Si’an and Wei Yu-Chia. His novel State of Emergency won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2018, and his short story collection It Never Rains on National Day was shortlisted for the same prize. He is the co-editor with Dr. Kavita Bhanot of Violent Phenomena: Essays Towards the Future of Translation. He has been a Translator-in-Residence at Princeton University and at the University of Iowa, and served on the juries of the International Booker Prize and National Book Award (Translated Literature). Originally from Singapore, he now lives in Flushing, Queens.
for writing/ translation queries, please contact Jessica Friedman jessica@sll.com
for playwriting/ film queries, please contact Bonnie Davis bdavis@bretadamsltd.net
Bluesky: @jeremytiang.bsky.social Instagram: @Jeremy_Tiang
photo credit Qingshan Wang
EVENTS
31 Oct, 12.30pm: In Other Worlds - TIFA panel with Huang Chong-Kai and Portia Elan
31 Oct, 2.30pm: Literature in Translation - TIFA panel with Danny Hahn
21 Nov, 1pm: The Space Between Languages - Singapore Writers Festival