Michael Day

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Michael Day is a traveler, writer, and translator based in Mexico City, though originally from the American Midwest. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books: China Channel, Georgia Review, Words Without Borders, Pathlight, and Massachusetts Review, among other publications.

His awards include the 2015 Bai Meigui Translation Prize (joint winner with Natascha Bruce) and the 2020 Jules Chametzky Translation Prize, and he holds a master's degree in East Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Southern California. Read an interview with Michael Day here.

Michael Day translated for READ PAPER REPUBLIC, week 30, 7 January 2015.

 

Read Now: On Paper Republic

A Fortuneteller in a Modern Metropolis by Liang Hong March 13, 2019
Piano Twilight by Chen Cun January 07, 2016

Read Now: Around the Web

Cloud Mountain by Chen Shuyao Books from Taiwan
Song of Parting by Lu Min Massachusetts Review
Are You at Home? by Liu Ying Another Chicago Magazine
Hong Kong literature inside and outside of the Umbrella Movement by Dorothy (Hiu Hung) Tse PEN Atlas
Scissors, Shining by Lu Min Words Without Borders
The Han Children of Kürti by Li Juan tr. Breanna Chia, Michael Day, Philip Hand, Lehyla Heward and Richard Silk #NewWriting

Book Publications

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That We May Live

Chan Chi Wa, Chen Si'an, Tam Yee Lok, Dorothy (Hiu Hung) Tse, Yan Ge and Zhu Hui | Natascha Bruce, Michael Day, Audrey Heijns, Canaan Morse and Jeremy Tiang

March 10, 2020

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Short story (15)

Essay (2)

Excerpt (4)

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