Jeremy Tiang is a playwright, novelist and translator. He won the 2024 Obie Award for Outstanding New Play for his bilingual play Salesman之死. Other work for the stage includes A Dream of Red Pavilions, The Last Days of Limehouse, and translations of plays by Wei Yu-chia, Chen Si’an, Lin Meng-Huan and others. He has also translated over thirty books from across the Chinese-speaking world, including novels by Zhang Yueran, Yan Ge, Ping Lu, Lo Yi-Chin, Yeng Pway Ngon and Huang Chong-Kai. He was longlisted for the International Booker Prize for his translation of Zou Jingzhi’s Ninth Building, and won the Singapore Literature Prize for his novel State of Emergency. Along with Dr. Kavita Bhanot, he is the co-editor of Violent Phenomena: Essays Toward the Future of Literary Translation. Originally from Singapore, he
now lives in New York City.