Naomi Sím has won the Taiwan Literature in Taiwanese and Hakka Award 2026. The award is one of the most prestigious honours for heritage language literature in Taiwan.
Taiwan is a diverse and multilingual country, with people speaking a range of Austronesian and Sino-Tibetan languages. In the last 400 years, several waves of Han emigrations brought different Sinitic languages into Taiwan including Taiwanese Hokkien/Tâigí, Hakka, and Mandarin, which have become the major languages spoken in present-day Taiwan.
The literature award is hosted by the Ministry of Education and aims to foster understanding of the value of multilingual societies. It also helps to preserve the diversity of Taiwan’s local linguistic and cultural heritage and encourages writers, storytellers, and creatives to participate collectively in the creation of heritage language literary works.
Naomi Sím (沈宛瑩) is a Taiwanese writer with a background in Communication Design. She is now a three-time recipient of various Taiwanese Tâigí Literature Award for short story awards.
Her work explores themes of identity and culture, and uses humour and satire to examine deeper societal issues. We had the pleasure of publishing Naomi in our short story in translation collection Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic
Huge congratulations to Naomi.
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You can read more about Naomi’s win on the Central News Agency website.
