Chen Du & Xisheng Chen

Honors & Awards

• All Silence, a poetry collection by Zuo You 左右, co-translated by Chen Du, Yuyang Xie, and Xisheng Chen, won the 2026 International Outreach Project for the Overseas Readers' Club of Chinese Literature of the China Writers Association in April 2026
• Low Flight, a poetry collection by Wang Jibing 王计兵, co-translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen, won the 2025 Classic China International Publishing Project in December 2025
• Rock Arrangement, a poetry collection by Yan An 阎安, co-translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen, was a runner-up for Carnegie Mellon University Press's 2025 Literary Translation Prize in July 2025
• Middle-Aged Man's Self-Portrait, a poetry chapbook by Yan An 阎安, co-translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen, won the Toad Press International Chapbook Series in February 2025
• "Stranger Comes to Visit in a Strange Way," a poem by Yan An 阎安, co-translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen, was nominated for the 2025 Best of the Net anthology by Hedge Apple (housed at Hagerstown Community College) in September 2024
• "Situations of a Bird and Two People," a poem by Yan An 阎安, co-translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen, was nominated for the 2025 Best of the Net anthology by Tab Journal (housed at Tabula Poetica: The Center for Poetry at Chapman University and supported by Chapman University) in September 2024
• "Shakuhachi," an essay by Ma Ting 马婷, co-translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen, was longlisted for the Best Literary Translations 2025 anthology in 2024
• "Rock Arrangement," a poem by Yan An 阎安, co-translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen, was nominated for the Best Literary Translations 2025 anthology by Rhino in 2024
• Onlooker, a poetry chapbook by Yan An 阎安, co-translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen, was a finalist in The Toad Press International Chapbook Series in February 2024
• "Shadow," a short story by Feng Jiqi 冯积岐, co-translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen, was a finalist in the Anne Frydman Translation Prize (organized by The Hopkins Review, the literary journal of Johns Hopkins University) in July 2023
• “Rock Arrangement," a poem by Yan An 阎安, co-translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen, was selected for publication by Rhino from Rhino 2023 Founders' Prize in June 2023
• Village, a novel by Feng Jiqi 冯积岐, proposed by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen, was longlisted by Pen Presents (English Pen) in April 2023
• "Black Iron and Dark Cloud," a poem by Yan An 阎安, co-translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen, was nominated for the Best Literary Translations 2024 anthology by The Hopkins Review in December 2022
• Imaginary World, a set of nine poems by Yan An 阎安, co-translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen, was longlisted by the 2022 John Dryden Translation Competition (ranking: 11-39, 136 translations spanning 36 languages) in September 2022
• A Naturalist's Manor, a poetry collection by Yan An 阎安, co-translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen, published by Chax Press, was shortlisted (top four) for the 2022 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, administered by the American Literary Translators Association in September 2022
• "How Did Four Dung Beetles Easily Take Away Earth," a poem by Yan An 阎安, co-translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen, was nominated for the 2023 Best of the Net anthology by the Ilanot Review (the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University) in August 2022
• "Walking in the Right Shoes," a flash essay by Chen Du, was longlisted by the CNF Flash Contest of Invisible City (Literary Journal of the MFA in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco) in December 2021
• Deaf Person, a poetry collection by Zuo You 左右, co-translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen, was shortlisted by Ugly Duckling Presse in its 2021 First Translation selection (700+ submissions) in October 2021
• A set of five poems by Yan An 阎安, co-translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen, was the winner of the 2021 Zachary Doss Friends in Letters Fellowship in October 2021
• The World's Ten Portraits, a set of ten poems by Yan An 阎安, co-translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen, was longlisted by the 2021 John Dryden Translation Competition (ranking: 11-53) in September 2021
• A set of three poems, "The Beauty of Confrontation," "A Man With a Horrible Dent on His Head," and "Writing Lyrics for a Rocker at a Subway Passage," by Yan An 阎安, co-translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen, was one of the six finalists in the 2020 Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts (Lunch Ticket Magazine, a literary and art journal from the MFA community at Antioch University Los Angeles) in May 2020