In Conversation with Wu Ming-Yi’s The Stolen Bicycle

Due to the COVID outbreak, this event will be online. 

因雪梨疫情嚴重，此活動從原先在新州州立圖書館轉移成線上舉辦。

This event will run in bilingual (Mandarin and English).

此活動將以雙語（中、英）舉行。

Guest Speaker: Wu Ming-Yi 

現場線上講者：吳明益老師

Wu Ming-Yi, a highly acclaimed Taiwanese author and professor of Sinophone literature, who is an enthusiast of painting, photography, and environmental issues. Wu's first two novels, Routes in the Dream (2007) and The Man with the Compound Eyes (2011), have been translated into multiple languages. Wu received multiple awards and prizes from his works including the Prix du livre insulaire award and listed among the best Chinese Fiction Books of the Last Century by Time Out Beijing. Wu’s third novel, The Stolen Bicycle (2015), won the Taiwan Literary Award in 2015 and was longlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2018. The Stolen Bicycle depicts stories through uncovering historical memories, cultures, society, and ecology of Taiwan. 

 In 2021, director Yang Ya-Che (The Bold, The Corrupt and The Beautiful and Girlfriend Boyfriend) adapted Wu’s collection of short stories, The Magician on The Skyway, into a TV series. This prominent TV series received praises from both local and overseas critics for its vanguard style of visual productions and story-telling presentation. 

Guest Speaker: Darryl Sterk 

現場線上講者：石岱崙老師

Darryl Sterk holds a Ph.D. in Taiwanese literature and film from the University of Toronto and currently teaches at Hong Kong Ling-Nan University in the department of translation. Sterk is interested in Taiwan’s indigenous language, especially the Seediq language. He has completed a lengthy study on the Mandarin-Seediq translation of the screenplay of Wei Te-Sheng’s film Warriors of The Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011). His notable works include translations of The Man With The Compound Eyes and The Stolen Bicycle both by Wu Ming-Yi.