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|name=Sylvia Li-chun Lin
|birth_place=[[Shanhua District|Shanhua]], [[Tainan]], [[Taiwan]]
|alma_mater={{Unbulleted list|[[Tamkang University]]|[[St. John's University (New York City)|St. John's University]]|[[University of Oregon]]|[[University of California, Berkeley]] (Ph.D.)}}
|spouse=[[Howard Goldblatt]]
|workplaces={{Unbulleted list|[[University of Colorado, Boulder]]|[[University of Notre Dame]]}}
|module={{Chinese|child=yes|t={{linktext|林|麗|君}}|s={{linktext|林|丽|君}}|p=Lín Lìjūn|w=Lin<sup>2</sup> Li<sup>4</sup>-chün<sup>1</sup>}}
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'''Sylvia Li-chun Lin''' (Shanhua, Tainan, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-born Chinese–English translator and a former associate professor of Chinese Literature at the [[University of Colorado Boulder]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sylvia Li-chun Lin|url=https://data.bnf.fr/fr/15535754/sylvia_li-chun_lin/|access-date=2021-02-17|website=data.bnf.fr}}</ref> and the [[University of Notre Dame]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Author|url=http://us.macmillan.com/author/|access-date=2021-02-17|website=US Macmillan|language=en-US}}</ref> She has translated over a dozen novels with her husband [[Howard Goldblatt]].
==Awards==
*[[Liang Shih-chiu]] Literary Translation Prize<ref>{{Cite web|last=Dame|first=University of Notre|title=Chinese Professors Make Winning Translation Team // College of Arts and Letters // University of Notre Dame|url=https://al.nd.edu/news/latest-news/chinese-professors-make-winning-translation-team/|access-date=2021-02-17|website=College of Arts and Letters|date=6 May 2011 |language=en}}</ref>
*2000 – [[National Translation Award]] for translation of ''Notes of a Desolate Man'' by [[Chu T’ien-wen]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=NTA Winners {{!}} The American Literary Translators Association|url=https://www.literarytranslators.org/awards/nta-winners|access-date=2021-02-17|website=www.literarytranslators.org}}</ref>
*2011 – [[Man Asian Literary Prize]] for ''Three Sisters'' by [[Bi Feiyu]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-03-18|title=Chinese novelist Bi Feiyu's Three Sisters Wins MAN Asian Literary Prize|url=https://publishingperspectives.com/2011/03/bi-feiyus-three-sisterswins-man-asian-booker-prize/|access-date=2021-02-17|website=Publishing Perspectives|language=en-US}}</ref>
==Works==
===Translations===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Author
!English title
!Original title
!class="unsortable"|Notes
|-
|[[Chu T’ien-wen]]||''Notes of a Desolate Man''||荒人手記||rowspan=16|with [[Howard Goldblatt]]
|-
|rowspan=3|[[Bi Feiyu]]||''The Moon Opera''||青衣
|-
|''Three Sisters''||玉米
|-
|''[[Massage (novel)|Massage]]''||推拿
|-
|rowspan=3|[[Liu Zhenyun]]||''The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon''||我叫刘跃进
|-
|''I Did Not Kill My Husband''||我不是潘金莲
|-
|''Remembering 1942''||温故一九四二
|-
|[[Shih Shu-ching]]||''City of the Queen''||她名叫蝴蝶
|-
|[[Li Ang (writer)|Li Ang]]||''The Lost Garden''||迷園
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Alai (author)|Alai]]||''The Song of King Gesar''||格萨尔王
|-
|''Red Poppies''||尘埃落定
|-
|[[Xi Ni Er]]||''The Ernest Mask''||认真面具
|-
|[[Li Yung-p'ing]]||''Retribution: the Jiling Chronicles''||吉陵春秋
|-
|[[Mo Yan]]||''Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh''||师傅越来越幽默
|-
|[[Song Ying]]||''Apricot's Revenge''||杏烧红
|-
|[[Beila]]||''The Cursed Piano''||魔咒钢琴
|-
|[[You Jin]]||''Teaching Cats to Jump Hoops''||听, 青春在哭泣||
|}
===Academic===
*{{cite book|title=Representing Atrocity: The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]|isbn=978-0-231-14360-8|year=2007}}
*''Push Open the Door: Poetry from Contemporary China.'' [[Copper Canyon Press]] 2011. {{ISBN|978-1556593307}}.
*{{cite book|title=Documenting Taiwan on Film: Issues and Methods in New Documentaries|isbn=978-0-415-68511-5|year=2012|publisher=[[Routledge]]}} (co-edited with Tze-lan D. Sang)
==References==
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==Sources==
*{{cite web|url=http://eastasian.nd.edu/news/chinese-professors-make-winning-translation-team/|title=Chinese Professors Make Winning Translation Team|website=[[University of Notre Dame]]|last=Cohorst|first=Kate|date=2011-05-06}}
*{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080413055002/http://eastasian.nd.edu/directory/sylvia-li-chun-lin/|url=http://eastasian.nd.edu/directory/sylvia-li-chun-lin/|archive-date=2008-04-13|website=[[University of Notre Dame]]|title=Sylvia Li–chun Lin, Assistant Professor}}
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