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SUMMARY:Hong Kong Author
DESCRIPTION:\nYou are invited to a conversation with Hong Kong novelist
Lau Yee-Wa\, who will read from her novel Tongueless. Lau’s short story
“The Shark” won the prestigious Hong Kong Champion of the Arts Award for
Creative Writing in Chinese in 2016. After working as an editor in a pu
blishing house for five years\, she transitioned into writing fiction an
d pursuing a career in education. Her debut novel Tongueless has been hi
ghly praised by acclaimed Hong Kong authors including Chan Ho-Kei and Do
rothy Tse. The English version of Tongueless\, translated by Jennifer Fe
eley\, was published in June 2024 by The Feminist Press.\n\nThis event i
s sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies\, the Department of Compa
rative Literature\, and the Humanities Institute\, and is supported by t
he Hong Kong Arts Development Council.\n\nFor more details: https://even
ts.la.psu.edu/event/hong-kong-author/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:You are invited
to a conversation with Hong Kong novelist Lau Yee-Wa, who will read fro
m her novel Tongueless. Lau’s short story “The Shark” won the p
restigious Hong Kong Champion of the Arts Award for Creative Writing in
Chinese in 2016. After working as an editor in a publishing house for fi
ve years, she transitioned into writing fiction and pursuing a career in
education. Her debut novel Tongueless has been highly praised
by acclaimed Hong Kong authors including Chan Ho-Kei and Dorothy Tse. Th
e English version of Tongueless, translated by Jennifer Feeley,
was published in June 2024 by The Feminist Press.
This event is s
ponsored by the Department of Asian Studies, the Department of Comparati
ve Literature, and the Humanities Institute, and is supported by the Hon
g Kong Arts Development Council.
For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/e
vent/hong-kong-author/
URL:https://asian.la.psu.edu/
LOCATION:227 Burrowes Building
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