Two M'sian authors on international award longlist for women in translated literature

Books by authors Long Litt Woon (left) and Ho Sok Fong have made it to the longlist of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2020. Photo: Filepic

Two books from two Malaysian authors have made it onto the longlist for this year’s Warwick Prize For Women In Translation, an international award for women in translated literature.

They are Lake Like A Mirror, an anthology written in Chinese by Ho Sok Fong and translated by Natascha Bruce, and The Way Through the Woods, a memoir written in Norwegian by Long Litt Woon and translated by Barbara Haveland.