Lin King

New York

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Writer + translator; speaks English + Mandarin + Japanese; based in Taipei + New York

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Articles

Kate McKinnon Hosts 2024 National Book Awards

Nov 21, 2024 | people.com | Jason de Léon |Lena Khalaf Tuffaha |Lin King |Rachel Raposas

Host Kate McKinnon and fiction winner Percival Everett. Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty (2) The 2024 National Book Awards were presented to winners in fiction, nonfiction, young people's literature and translated literature, as well as awards for lifetime achievement and service to the literary community. Comedian and author Kate McKinnon emceed the event and Jon Batiste performed as the musical guest.
Taiwan Travelogue: A Novel

Nov 14, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Lin King

Aoyama Chizuko has “a monster’s appetite.”“When it comes to good food,” she says, “I will forever have room in my stomach.”The year is 1938. Chizuko, a successful author whose debut novel, A Record of Youth, has been made into a movie, has traveled from her home on Kyūshū, Japan’s third-largest island, for an all-expenses-paid lecture tour. Her destination: Taiwan, another island, located in the westernPacific Ocean off the southeastern coast of China.
THE BOY FROM CLEARWATER

Feb 17, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Lin King |Michael Bronski |Pei-yun Yu |Jian-xin Zhou

by Pei-yun Yu ; illustrated by Jian-xin Zhou ; translated by Lin King ‧An accessible, timely account of Taiwan’s struggles for democracy and human rights as experienced through a personal lens. The continuation of a true-life story translated from Taiwanese Hoklo, Mandarin Chinese, and Japanese revisits Taiwan’s contemporary history and evolution as a civil society.