Silvia Marijnissen (1970) is a translator of Chinese literature. She has translated novels by Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan and Eileen Chang, modern poetry by many poets from China and Taiwan, and classical landscape poetry. Together with Anne Sytske Keijser and Mark Leenhouts she translated the 18th century classic The Dream of the Red Chamber, for which they received the Filter translation prize.

She translated Zheng Xiaoqiongs poetry anthology Als ijzer zo stil in Dutch, on behalf of Poëziecentrum Gent. 

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