Nicky Harman

Nicky Harman lives in the UK. She taught translation at Imperial College until 2011 and now translates full-time from Chinese. She focuses on fiction, literary nonfiction, and occasionally poetry by authors such as Chen Xiwo, Han Dong, Hong Ying, Dorothy Tse, Xinran, Yan Geling and Zhang Ling. She has contributed to the literary magazines Chutzpah, and Words Without Borders, and also organizes translation-focused events, mentors new translators and was one of the judges for the Harvill Secker Young Translators Prize 2012, and the Writing Chinese Translation competition, run by the White Rose East Centre, University of Leeds.