Violent Phenomena 21 Essays on Translation

Dr. Kavita Bhanot is ECR Leverhulme Fellow at Leicester University. She is editor of The Book of Birmingham, Too Asian, Not Asian Enough, and co-editor of the Bare Lit Anthology. Her fiction, non-fiction and academic work has been published, performed and broadcast widely, including the landmark essay 'Decolonise not Diversify' and her Tedx Talk 'Reading, Writing and Self-Interrogation'. Kavita initiated and co-organised the Literature Must Fall Festival in Birmingham 2019 and founded the Literature Must Fall Collective - her monograph exploring these ideas will be published in 2022 by Pluto Press. She has been a reader and mentor with The Literary Consultancy for ten years and is on the board for Comma Press. Her first novel came third in the 2018 SI Leeds Literary Prize.

Jeremy Tiang has translated over thirty books from Chinese, including novels by Yan Ge, Yeng Pway Ngon, Lo Yi-Chin and Zhang Yueran. He also writes and translates plays. His novel, State of Emergency, won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2018. He lives in Flushing, Queens.