Nicky Harman

Nicky Harman is a UK-based prize-winning literary translator, working from Chinese to English.

Nicky Harman taught on the MSc in Translation at Imperial College London until 2011, and has been a full-time literary translator since then. She focuses on fiction, poetry and occasionally literary non-fiction, by authors such as Chen Xiwo, Han Dong, Hong Ying, Dorothy Tse, Xinran, Yan Geling and Zhang Ling. She has been a contributor to the literary magazines Chutzpah, and Words Without Borders, and also organizes translation-focused events, mentors new translators and was one of the judges for the Harvill Secker Young Translators Prize 2012, and for the White Rose Centre Leeds University Chinese-to-English Translation Prize, 2015 and 2016. She is also a contributor to the website Paper Republic, and founded the China Fiction Book Club in 2010. She is currently Co-Chair of the Translators' Association of the Society of Authors. From June 2015-June 2016, she, along with Eric Abrahamsen, Dave Haysom and Helen Wang, is running the READ PAPER REPUBLIC project, posting and promoting a free-to-view short story every week for a year.

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