Yu Shi
Yu Shi is a writer, translator and reporter living in Shanghai. She graduated with a degree in International Chinese from ECNU in 1998, and has published several novels, novelettes and collections of essays since 2002. Yu has published more than 30 books of translations from English to Chinese, including The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson, Hand to Mouth by Paul Auster, The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor, The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima by Henry Scott Stokes, and Duma Key, Dark Tower VII and Doctor Sleep by Stephen King. As a reporter, her book reviews and interviews can be seen in Bazzar, Modern Weekend and other major media outlets in China. Since 2020, Yu has hosted TiaoDao FM, a popular podcast focused on literature and writers. She also hosts and produces another podcast PingPongFM, focused on films adapted from books, with her friend JingFei, who is an expert on Film History.
Her latest novel One and Only is the first novel written about people living on the Autism spectrum in Chinese literature world.
Yu will be appearing at the following events: