Read an extract from Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi and translated by Jeremy Tiang, which was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023
Jeremy Tiang
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Jeremy Tiang is a novelist, playwright, literary translator and former International Booker Prize judge
Tiang has translated over 20 books from across the Chinese-speaking world, including novels by Yeng Pway Ngon, Yan Ge, Lo Yi-Chin, Liu Xinwu and Zhang Yueran. Tiang’s plays include Salesman and A Dream of Red Pavilions, and translations of plays by Chen Si’an and Wei Yu-Chia.
Tiang’s novel State of Emergency won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2018, and their short story collection It Never Rains on National Day was shortlisted for the same prize. Tiang is the co-editor with Dr Kavita Bhanot of Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation. In 2022, Tiang was the Princeton University Translator-in-Residence and an International Booker Prize judge. Originally from Singapore, the translator now lives in Queens, New York.
Jeremy Tiang’s translation of Ninth Building was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, announced on March 14, 2023.
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A fascinating collection of vignettes based on the author’s life in China during the Cultural Revolution
By Zou Jingzhi
Translated by Jeremy Tiang
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