The prize, now in its 40th year, is awarded by the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada (LTAC). It is granted annually to a literary translator whose first book-length translation into English or French stands out for its literary merits and precision.

Wang was named the winner of this year’s prize for The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing), translations of selected works of five Chinese poets. She will receive a $1,000 prize and, along with the other two finalists, a one-year membership to LTAC.

In their citation, the jury said “Wang’s renderings eloquently and faithfully convey tone, rhythm and register, yet the translator-poet also walks confidently alongside the original poems and authors, expanding into the possibilities of the target language to better allow the images and evocations in the source texts to draw their English breath.”