Noted translators Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin, who teach at the University of Colorado at Boulder, recently received the National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association for Notes of a Desolate Man. The pair's sterling effort earned lavish praise from David Wang, chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University: "It is a masterpiece of translation.
《荒人手記》譯者科羅拉多大學教授葛浩文與林麗君，因翻譯此書獲得美國年度翻譯獎，哥倫比亞大學東亞系語文學主任王德威也盛讚《荒人手記》的譯作，締造「傑出的譯本，認真的面對學界」的完整運作模式。