Isabelle Li
Dr Isabelle Li (李牧原) is a Chinese Australian writer and translator based in Sydney. Her recent novel The Northern Tomb was published by Puncher & Wattmann. She has published in various anthologies and literary journals including Sydney Review of Books, The Best Australian Stories, Southerly, Westerly and UTS Writers’ Anthology. Her collection of short stories, A Chinese Affair, was published by Margaret River Press in 2016. She was the inaugural winner of the Margaret Whitlam Fellowship. Her prose translations have appeared in Sydney Review of Books and her poetry translations in Mascara, World Literature and Works in China. Her Chinese translation of Sebastian Barry’s novel The Secret Scripture was published by Zhejiang Literature & Art Publishing House. Isabelle received her Doctor of Creative Arts from Western Sydney University.
Isabelle will be appearing in the following events:
MTNS MADE: Isabelle Li, Naomi Parry Duncan, Barry Corr and Mark O'Flynn hosted by Erin English - Fri 30 Oct
GRIEF AND REDEMPTION: Katia Ariel, Kathryn Heyman and Isabelle Li in conversation with Michaela Kalowski - Sat 31 Oct