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Natascha Bruce

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Natascha Bruce

United Kingdom

Natascha Bruce translates from Chinese. Her work includes Lonely Face by Yeng Pway Ngon (shortlisted for the TA First Translation Prize), Bloodline by Patigül, Lake Like a Mirror by Ho Sok Fong (shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation), and A Classic Tragedy by Xu Xiaobin, co-translated with Nicky Harman. Forthcoming translations include Mystery Train by Can Xue and Owlish by Dorothy Tse, for which she was awarded a 2021 PEN/Heim grant. She and Tse were among the winners of the 2019 Words Without Borders Poems in Translation Contest.

Articles by Natascha Bruce

Dark as a Boy

Pretty much everyone knew Saw Ai’s family had problems.

Translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce

Solo Dance

From that day on, her memories of Danchen were frozen.

Translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce

Sexism and Science Fiction: An Interview with Tang Fei

By Nicky Harman & Natascha Bruce

Tang Fei (the pen name of Wang Jing) was born in 1983 in Shanghai. She is well known as a writer of science fiction and fantasy and is also a literary critic and essayist. Tang Fei was one of our star…

Translated by Nicky Harman

Cloth Birds

There's no cloth hawker in the bazaar / willing to make dirty deals

Translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce

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Work Hard

By Eric Chau & Chi-Wai Un

Trixie’s colleagues were all frantically busy and unfailingly rude.

Translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce

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This City I Come From

no disputes / chroniclers and chronicled as one / reunification, yes, reunification

Translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce

Chewing on Words

It wasn't their voices that they'd lost, it was all memory of their language.

Translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce