peng chang, vogue china june 2025 beauty issue, photographed by leslie zhang, makeup/nails by valentina li, styled by alvin yu

Recently launched in Wuhan China three on my novels translated and published in New Chinese (spoken as Mandarin): The Heart of Redness, She Plays with the Darkness, and The Zulus of New York. What a rousing welcome!

So much poetry on my TL. Bliss ☺️

Loving the responses to this because this is what ageing looks like beloved. It starts with bacon, then pork in general Next thing oxtail is too oily Then lamb has that taste Before you know it, avo has a funny texture Jikijiki you're eating sorghum & tea Oh life 🥂😂

I don’t understand why handwashing your panties is such a big deal 😕

Not me thinking I can translate a whole conversation between an English and French speaker. I love how much I believe in myself sometimes 😅

Today was so much fun ✨

I think I want to attend a couple’s cooking/dance class 🤔 The universe will figure out the rest.

Ta-R 🥰🙌🏾🚀

She needed to be single. Sorry but yoh.

Blessed with the best 🥰💕

Some things are so far removed from my reality that I physically cannot imagine it

Started doing this, and it taught me a lot about some of the people in my life 🙂

Ngqawa >>>

If people can avoid paying for one more thing they’ll absolutely avoid it. I don’t even want to touch on municipal services ke. People paid and watched everything around them decay because their monies were squandered. People are struggling to reconcile value with payments

LITERARY NEWS FROM CHINA: Two South African literary translations - She Plays with the Darkness and The Zulus of New York - featured in the Searchlight Book List in July after being reviewed by 26 judges and shortlisted by the Book Critics Association. We’ll keep fingers crossed

I need this to be true 🥹

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The more I read about Sutherland, the more intrigued I am 🫢