Chang Fen-ling

Chang Fen-ling (born 1954) is a Taiwanese poetry critic and translator. A graduate of the English Department of National Taiwan Normal University, she formerly taught at Hualien Girls' Senior High School. Over the years she has collaborated with her husband, Chen Li, on more than thirty translated volumes of foreign poetry, and has received the Liang Shih-chiu Literary Award for Translation several times as well as the Hu Shih Translation Award in 2017. Sixteen of her works are included in the collection, among them Sylvia Plath's Ariel, selected poems of Nelly Sachs and César Vallejo, a selection of Neruda's poetry, and translations of Japanese classics such as the Man'yōshū and Kokinshū, together with anthologies of haiku by Bashō, Buson, Issa and Chiyo-ni. Her translations span modern Western poetry and classical Japanese waka and haiku, giving her a notable presence in Chinese-language poetry translation.