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Books by Wong Yi
Wong Yi is an award-winning Hong Kong writer, librettist, radio show host, and editor at Fleur des Lettres. She is the author of four short story collections: Ways to Love In A Crowded City, The Four Seasons of Lam Yip, Patched Up, and News Stories. In 2020, she was named one of 20 Young Sinophone Fiction Writers to Watch by the Taiwanese literary magazine Unitas. She participated in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 2023.
Interviews with Wong Yi
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1
Mourning a Breast
Xi Xi and Jennifer Feeley (translator) -
2
The Drunkard
Liu Yichang, Charlotte Chun-lam Yiu (translator) -
3
Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City
Dung Kai-cheung and Anders Hansson & Bonnie S. McDougall (translators) -
4
The Borrowed
by Chan Ho-Kei & Jeremy Tiang (translator) -
5
The Kite Family
Hon Lai-chu and Andrea Lingenfelter (translator)
The Best Hong Kong Novels, recommended by Wong Yi
The Best Hong Kong Novels, recommended by Wong Yi
Hong Kong’s fiction scene punches above its weight, and it’s not all political allusion. From magical realism to detective fiction, award-winning writer Wong Yi recommends her five favourite novels from a city depicted in fictional form as simultaneously claustrophobic and cosmopolitan.