Chinese increasingly prefer Australian authurs
China has become Australia's largest market for books with more contracts for Australian works made with Chinese publishers than in the UK or US. Australian ambassador Jan Adams said that over the past 10 years there have been increasing numbers of Australian authors visiting China to "share their stories with Chinese audiences and celebrate contemporary Australian writing". In the 13 years to 2015, around 3,200 Australian titles were translated into Chinese, while from 1981 to 1988 that figure was only 15.
From Thomas Keneally of Schindler’s Ark to John Marsden of Tomorrow When the War Began, writers are helping to boost exports from Down Under