Masterclass with Literary Translator Jennifer Feeley on 9 Dec 2024

We are thrilled to announce a special masterclass featuring our esteemed guest, Jennifer Feeley. Jennifer will share her personal journey as a translator, provide practical tips on copyright and grants, and lead hands-on translation activities.

Jennifer Feeley is the translator of Xi Xi’s Mourning a Breast, Not Written Words: Selected Poetry of Xi Xi, and Carnival of Animals: Xi Xi’s Animal Poems, as well as Lau Yee-Wa’s novel Tongueless, Chen Jiatong’s White Fox series, and Wong Yi’s Cantonese chamber opera libretto Women Like Us. Her forthcoming translations include Xi Xi’s My City. She is the recipient of the 2017 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize and a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship.

The details of the masterclass are as follows:

Date: 9 December 2024 (Monday)

Time: 15:00 – 18:00

Venue: LKKG05

(*For RPg students only)

If you are interested in participating in this event, please scan the QR code on the poster or click the link to register by 29 Nov 2024 (Fri).

We look forward to seeing you there and hope you take advantage of this unique opportunity to learn from one of the leading figures in literary translation.