What is the hardest place to drive to? “It’s not the edges of the world,” said Father, “It’s the place you commute to every day. You can never drive to Taipei City.” Father used to be a construction worker. A construction worker never took weekends off. A day without rain was a workday, and […]
Hsieh Chih-wei
HSIEH CHIH-WEI (謝凱特, b. 1986) is a Taiwanese essayist, short story writer, and children’s book editor. A graduate of the MFA program at National Dong Hwa University, Hsieh is the recipient of numerous Taiwanese literary prizes, including the 2019 Lin Rong-san Literary Prize, the 2019 Taipei Literature Award, and the 2020 TIBE Book Prize. “You Can Never Drive to Taipei City” is an excerpt from Hsieh’s memoir My Ant-Man Father, which has been translated to Czech by František Reismũller.
