Lie Loan Lian Nio
Lie Loan Lian Nio ( zh, 李來莲娘) was one of the earliest known woman translators of Chinese language novels into Malay language, Malay in the Dutch East Indies. She was active in the 1920s and mostly translated for the magazine . Biography Little is known about Lie Loan Lian Nio, including her birthplace, birth date or educational background. She was most likely a Peranakans, Peranakan (assimilated, Malay-speaking Chinese) woman born at around the start of the twentieth century. Because Indies Chinese writers commonly published under pseudonyms, it may not have been her actual name either. She may have lived in East Java, where all her translations were printed. Her first known publication of a translation was in 1921. At that time women in the Dutch East Indies had published poetry and translations of novels but there were not yet any original novels published by women; some of her translator contemporaries include Nyonya The Tiang Ek, Chen Hiang Niang, Nona Phoa Gin Hian and ...
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