TRANSLATORS

Emmanuelle Péchenart

Language | French

A graduate of INALCO (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales) and holder of a doctorate in language sciences from EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), Emmanuelle Péchenart has been translating Chinese-language literature since the 1980s, including modern and contemporary novels and poetry from China, Taiwan and the diaspora. For a time research assistant on the history of the Chinese City at the Institut Français d'Architecture, she occasionally joins the works of the Observatoire de l'Architecture de la Chine contemporaine (Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine - Paris). She participates in various training or exchanges international programs about translation.

Email: [email protected]
Genre: Literature

Translated Work

Ling Yu, Terres sauvages (零雨詩集), co-translated with Camille Loivier, Circé, 2022.

Chen Yu-hsuan, Les Titis (陳育萱，蒂蒂), in Formosana, Histoires de démocratie à Taiwan, L’Asiathèque, 2021.

Wuhe, Mon frère le déserteur (舞鶴，逃兵二哥) in Formosana, Histoires de démocratie à Taiwan, L’Asiathèque, 2021.

Qiu Miaojin, Les Carnets du crocodile (邱妙津，鱷魚手記), Notabilia, 2020.

Qiu Miaojin, Dernières lettres de Montmartre (邱妙津，蒙馬特遺書), Notabilia, 2018.

Chi Wei-jan, Rue du Dragon couché (紀蔚然，私家偵探), Calmann-Lévy, 2018.

Ping Lu, La Mort dans le champ de maïs (平路，玉米田之死), in Anthologie historique de la prose romanesque taïwanaise moderne, volume III, Youfeng, 2018.

Wuhe, Chant déchirant du déchireur (舞鶴，撕人撕歌), Jentayu, 2017.

Hsi Muren, Sept poèmes (席慕容，七首詩), festival Poestate, Lugano, 2012.

Wuhe, Les Survivants (舞鶴，餘生) , co-translated with Esther Lin-Rosolato, Actes Sud, 2011.

Ping Lu, Le dernier amour de Sun Yat-sen (平路，行道天涯), Mercure de France, 2008.

Hwang Chun-ming, Le Gong (黃春明，鑼) co-translated with Anne Wu, Actes Sud, 2008.