The award-winning translator of the works of many of Poland’s leading contemporary novelists talks about translating Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s books
His writing won China’s first Nobel Prize for Literature, but is it patriotic enough for Xi Jinping’s China? Patriotic campaigns have become more common in recent years in China, as online nationalists attack journalists, writers or other public figures they say have offended the country's dignity, but it is unusual for a figure as prominent as Mo Yan to be targeted. Patriotic blogger Wu Wanzheng, who goes by “Truth-Telling Mao Xinghuo” online, filed suit against the novelist last month under a 2018 law that made insulting heroes and martyrs a crime punishable by up to three years in prison.