Biographie de Mieke k.t. Desmet
The Author : Mieke K.T. Desmet, born in Kortrijk in 1962, is Flemish and gained an M.A. in Germanic Philology (University of Louvain, 1985). She taught in Taiwan for several years before pursuing an M.A. in Comparative Literature (University College London, 1995), an M.A. in Children's Literature (Roehampton Institute, 1999) and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (University College London, 2002). She is currently an Associate Professor in the Foreign Languages and Literature Department of Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Her main research interests are the translation of children's literature, fiction for girls, visual texts, alphabet books and children's literature in Taiwan.