Honey Watson
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| Nationality | British |
| Education | New York University, Yenching Academy Peking University |
| Genre | Horror, Science fiction |
| Years active | 2023-present |
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Honey Watson is an English author and translator of literature from Mandarin to English. Watson currently resides in Las Vegas, where she gets inspiration from her interests of dive bars, fashion and hockey.[1]
Education
[edit]Watson graduated with a first in history from UCL[2][3] before pursuing the Master's programme at Yenching Academy, a graduate college of Peking University, in Beijing. She states she did not speak a word of Chinese before arriving in Beijing.[4]
After reading the assigned reading, Lu Xun's Diary of a Madman she insisted on changing majors to Chinese literature, and began the process of self-teaching herself to translate literature.[4]
Following Yenching, Watson pursued a PhD in Comparative Literature from NYU.[5]
Career
[edit]Chinese novelist Su Tong gave a month-long series of lectures at NYU, which Watson assisted by providing English language translations of his discussed stories throughout. This would lead to Watson translating a short story collection of Tong's called Midnight Stories: A short story collection from the mind behind Raise the Red Lantern.[4]
Her debut novel Lessons in Birdwatching was published by Angry Robot in 2023 in the US and UK to positive reviews.[6][7]
Watson's first novel-length translation was Fan Wu's Souls Left Behind: A WW1 Chinese Labour Corps Novel.[4]
She contributed to a collection of short stories by Yao Emei, where each story was translated by a different translator, called The Unfilial: Four Tragic Tales from Modern China.[4][8]
Bibliography
[edit]Novels
[edit]- Lessons in Birdwatching - (Angry Robot, 2023).
Translations
[edit]- Souls Left Behind: A WW1 Chinese Labour Corps Novel, by Fan Wu (Sinoist Books, 2024) -- trans. by Honey Watson
- The Unfilial: Four Tragic Tales from Modern China, by Yao Emei (Sinoist Books, 2024) -- trans. by Will Spence, Olivia Milburn, Honey Watson and Martin Wards
- Midnight Stories: A short story collection from the mind behind Raise the Red Lantern, by Su Tong (Sinoist Books, 2024) -- trans. by Honey Watson
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Careen Towards Annihilation With Lessons in Birdwatching by Honey Watson". Reactor Mag. TOR.com. 26 October 2022.
- ^ "Training world leaders of the future: student case studies". UCL. 10 October 2017.
- ^ "Honey Watson". The Bent Agency.
- ^ a b c d e Xuyen, Shi; Yu, Ying (14 September 2023). "Honey Watson: Translating out of love for contemporary Chinese literature". People's Daily Online.
- ^ "Honey Watson". AngryRobotBooks.
- ^ Di Filippo, Paul (17 October 2023). "Paul Di Filippo Reviews Lessons in Birdwatching by Honey Watson". Locus Magazine.
- ^ Mercik, Nadya (2023). "Lessons in Birdwatching". British Fantasy Society.
- ^ "The Unfilial: Four Tragic Tales from Modern China". Sinoist Books.
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