Nicky Harman, Chinese to English translator, poses for a photo in Clerkenwell, London, United Kingdom, 06 March 2020.

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Nicky Harman lives in the UK. She has won several awards for Chinese literary translation, including the 2020 Special Book Award, China, the 2015 Mao Tai Cup People’s Literature Chinese-English translation prize, and the 2013 China International Translation Contest, Chinese-to-English section. When not translating, she promotes contemporary Chinese fiction through teaching, blogs, talks and her work on Paper-Republic.org.

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