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.

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. Besides translating three novels by Erhard von Büren and a collection of Swiss folk tales from German, she has translated from Chinese: several articles in two books on contemporary Chinese art; and poems by modern Chinese poets, among them Leung Ping-kwan, Zheng Xiaoqiong and Zhai Yongming (together with Justyna Jaguscik). "A Visit to Gansu Province for the Chinese New Year" is her first authored book.