Cindy Carter

Cindy Carter is a Beijing-based translator of Chinese fiction, film, essay and poetry. She studied Japanese at U.C. San Diego and lived in Osaka for three years before coming to China as a language student in 1996. Since beginning her translation career in 1999, she has translated over forty independent Chinese films and documentaries and dozens of scripts, short stories, essays and poems. Her translation of Xiaolu Guo's novel Village of Stone (2004, Chatto & Windus, Random House, U.K.) was short-listed for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and long-listed for the IMPAC Prize.

Her recent translation projects include:

• Yan Lianke's Dream of Ding Village, a novel about blood-selling and the AIDS epidemic in Henan Province (scheduled for publication in 2009 by Constable and Robinson, U.K.)

• Yu Guangyi's Survival Song, a documentary about a family of hunter-trappers living in the wilds of Heilongjiang Province (Grand Prize winner, 5th China Independent Documentary Film Festival, Songzhuang, 2008; Grand Prize winner, Cinema Digital Seoul Festival, 2008; Selection, Vancouver Int'l Film Festival, 2008)

• Huang Wenhai's Creatures of Politics, Voices of Conscience, a documentary about human rights and democracy activists in China (Worldwide premiere at the 2008 Venice Int'l Film Festival - under the Chinese title "Women"/我们)