Helen Wang is a UK-based writer, translator and editor. She works collaboratively with Paper Republic, and WorldKidLit and co-founded the blog Chinese Books for Young Readers.
She has translated Chinese short stories and essays, and co-translated Lu Min’s novel Dinner for Six with Nicky Harman. Her translations for children include the novels Bronze and Sunflower, Dragonfly Eyes and The Grass House by Cao Wenxuan, Jackal and Wolf by Shen Shixi (China’s King of Animal Stories), Lessons in Happiness, The story of Zhan Ni and Yunqi by Qin Wenjun and Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean by Huang Beijia, and many picture books. For these she has received the UK’s Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation, and, in China, the Chen Bochui Special Award, and Shenzhen Reading Month’s Translator of the Year Award.
Formerly a British Museum curator, she is now an Adjunct Researcher at Zhejiang University’s School of Art and Archaeology and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds.