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Lin King | 金翎

Language | English
Lin King

Lin King is a writer and translator based in Taipei and New York. Her fiction has appeared in One Story, Boston Review, and Joyland, among other publications, and has won the PEN/Dau Debut Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Translations from Mandarin into English include The Boy from Clearwater by Yu Pei-Yun and Zhou Jian-Xin, Cloud Labour by Sabrina Huang Li-Chun, and Yang Shuang-Zi's novel Taiwan Travelogue, winner of the 2024 National Book Award in Translated Literature.

 

Email: linkingdec@gmail.com

Genre: Fiction, Comics

Translated Works

Yu Peiyun and Zhou JianXin, The Boy from Clearwater TBD (來自清水的孩子, 游珮芸 & 周見信), Levine Querido, forthcoming 2023-24 (in 2 volumes).

Yang Shuang-zi, Taiwan Travelogue TBD (臺灣漫遊錄, 楊双子), Graywolf, forthcoming 2024.

AAA-Bao, Between Islands (島嶼之間,阿寶灰灰)

Mickeyman, House Husband in Tokyo vol.4 (最軟!東京人夫日記 4,米奇鰻)