George O’Connell

George O’Connell, cotranslator with Diana Shi of Han Dong, has received numerous honors for his poetry, including Atlanta Review’s International Grand Prize and the Pablo Neruda Award, as well as two U.S. National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowships and two Fulbright professorships. Among his translations with Ms. Shi are Darkening Mirror by Wang Jiaxin; Crossing the Harbour: Ten Contemporary Hong Kong Poets; Passages: Thirteen Contemporary Taiwan Poets; and Capriccio on the Way to Buy Salt, poems by Han Dong.