ABOUT

Lin King 金翎 キン･リン is a writer and translator based in Taipei and New York. Her writing has appeared in One Story, Boston Review, and Joyland, among others, and has received the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.

Translations from Mandarin and Japanese into English include the graphic novel series The Boy from Clearwater by Yu Pei-Yun and Zhou Jian-Xin (Levine Querido), the chapbook Cloud Labour by Sabrina Huang Li-Chun (Strangers Press), and the novel Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-Zi (Graywolf Press), which won the 2024 National Book Award in Translated Literature. Forthcoming publications include A Perfect Day to Put Your Head in the Oven by Lee Chia-Ying (Doubleday).

Lin holds a BA from Princeton University and an MFA from Columbia University, where she taught undergraduate academic writing. She has worked as a Project Manager for the artist Cai Guo-Qiang and a Program Coordinator at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.

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金翎，1993年出生於紐約，成長於台北。畢業於普林斯頓大學學士和哥倫比亞大學碩士，並在後者任教寫作兩年。身為以英文創作的作者，曾在文藝雜誌《One Story》、《Boston Review》等發表多篇小說和散文，並曾獲得美國筆會PEN America短篇小說新人獎。於 2018 年開始登出中、日、英的翻譯作品，並自 2023年陸續推出游珮芸和周見信的歷史漫畫系列《來自清水的孩子》、黃麗群小說〈搬雲記〉、楊双子小說《臺灣漫遊錄》英文版，後者獲得2024年美國國家圖書獎National Book Award。將於2026年發表李佳穎長篇小說《進烤箱的好日子》英文版。

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Lin is represented by Mollie Glick at Creative Artists Agency:

Photo by Annette An-Jen Liu
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