Carrying Her Voice: Women in Translation

This panel examines the translator's role in shaping how women's writing travels across languages and cultures. From line-level choices to the broader questions of visibility and interpretation that determine which stories cross borders and how, our speakers consider what it means to translate women not merely as subjects, but as writers and agents within their own narratives.

About the Speakers & Moderator

Christina Ng is a Singaporean writer, journalist and translator based in Berlin, working between English and Chinese. Her Chinese to English literary translations include poetry by Singaporean poets Dan Ying, Pan Shou and Liang Wern Fook.

Gene Png is an award-winning literary translator based in Singapore, and recipient of the Grand Prize in Poetry at the 53rd Korea Times' Translation Awards. Her translations include Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo's bestselling memoir Two Women Living Together and Park Seolyeon's STEMinist mecha fantasy Project V.

Shanna Tan is a Singaporean literary translator working from Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and occasionally Thai, into English. Her translations include Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum and Café. Waiting. Love by Giddens Ko (九把刀).

Dr Anitha Devi Pillai (moderator) is an applied linguist, author, translator, and Assistant Dean at the National Institute of Education, NTU Singapore. Her translation of Sembawang: A Novel was shortlisted for the NUS Singapore History Prize. Her new collection What the Tongue Remembers is published by Penguin.