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January 4, 2022

Inside Chinese Publishers’ Growing Interest in African Literature

Since the 1980s, 106 African authors and 269 titles have been translated into the Chinese. Here, an insider provides an overview of the last two years, and a preview of 2022.
Bruce Humes
The Chinese edition of Congolese author Alain Mabanckou's Mémoires de porc-épic (Memoirs of a Porcupine), released in 2020. Credit: Sohu.com.

November 23, 2021

Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 10 Novels Acquired by Chinese Publisher

Shanghai Translation Publishing House secured the Chinese rights to the Nobel laureate’s fiction oeuvre. Five novels will be released in 2022.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Abdulrazak Gurnah's books. Credit: LA Times.

January 4, 2022

The Chinese edition of Congolese author Alain Mabanckou's Mémoires de porc-épic (Memoirs of a Porcupine), released in 2020. Credit: Sohu.com.

Inside Chinese Publishers’ Growing Interest in African Literature

Since the 1980s, 106 African authors and 269 titles have been translated into the Chinese. Here, an insider provides an overview of the last two years, and a preview of 2022.
Bruce Humes

November 23, 2021

Abdulrazak Gurnah's books. Credit: LA Times.

Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 10 Novels Acquired by Chinese Publisher

Shanghai Translation Publishing House secured the Chinese rights to the Nobel laureate’s fiction oeuvre. Five novels will be released in 2022.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

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