Pauline Fan

Writer, Translator, Researcher 

Malaysia

Pauline Fan is a writer, literary translator, and cultural researcher based in Malaysia.

She is a Director at George Town Literary Festival and Creative Director of cultural organisation PUSAKA.

Her translation of poems by Sarawak poet Kulleh Grasi, Tell Me, Kenyalang (Circumference Books, 2019), was shortlisted for the 2020 National Translation Award in Poetry, and longlisted for the Best Translated Book Awards 2020.

Her translations from German to Malay include literature by Bertolt Brecht, Immanuel Kant, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Paul Celan.