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Will Buckingham | 白忠修

Typesetting in four languages —  or , or , English & Gaelic — is a challenge. But the proofs for our short story collection translated between Taiwanese and Gaelic are coming into shape. And they're beautiful. Stories by Elissa Hunter-Dorans, Kiú-kiong, Naomi Sím & Lisa MacDonald.

The book is available on pre-order, and will be out in June, after which we're planning events in both the UK and Taiwan.

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Wind&Bones BookshopTâigael: Stories from Taiwanese and Gaelic, ed. Hannah Stevens & Will Buckingham (June 2025)PRE-ORDER Support our work in language diversity by pre-ordering Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese and Gaelic. When the book is published in June...

Even more complicated, the Taiwanese stories are presented both in 漢字 characters, and pe̍h-ōe-jī Romanisation. So we have four stories by four writers in four languages and five versions, It's been a blast....