Late start, early win

A longtime translator of well-known books finally comes into her own as an author, Wang Ru reports.

After translating literary works by such famous writers as F. S. Fitzgerald, Ian McEwan and Agatha Christie, and writing literary criticism for years, Huang Yuning finally took up writing herself. Her first collection of short stories, Eight and A Half, won her the Blancpain-Imaginist Literary Prize recently.

Sponsored by Swiss luxury-watch brand Blancpain and Chinese publisher Imaginist, the annual prize was established in 2018 to award writers younger than 45 years old.