Helen Wallimann

Helen Wallimann was born and brought up in Cheltenham UK. After her MA from Edinburgh University she worked in publishing in Munich, Paris and London. From 1973 until 2001 she was employed as a teacher of French and English at the Kantonsschule Solothurn, Switzerland. She still lives in Solothurn today. Helen Wallimann taught English at Chinese universities for two years (1989-90 and 2002-03). In 2008 and in 2011 she taught English didactics to Chinese schoolteachers in Gansu Province. To improve her understanding of Chinese culture she attended various courses and seminars on Chinese language and literature at Zurich University for about ten years from 2003. Translations by Helen Wallimann: - from Chinese: Several essays by Chinese artists and critics in Joerg Huber, Zhao Chuan (eds.), A New Thoughtfulness in Contemporary China, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2011 and The Body at Stake, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2013; Leung Ping-kwan, The Visible and the Invisible. Poems, MCCM creations, Hong Kong 2012. - from German: Legends from the Swiss Alps, MCCM creations, Hong Kong 2015; Epitaph for a Working Man, Matador 2015; Wasp Days, Matador 2016; A Long Blue Monday, Matador 2018.