Please note that this event has been cancelled. We hope to welcome Yee-Wa and Jennifer to Leeds at a future point.Tongueless is " A provocative contemporary Hong Kong noir, blending together politics and personal rivalry into an explosively exciting debut" - Serpent's Tail.
Lau Yee-Wa is one of Hong Kong's most exciting emerging authors. She studied Chinese Language and Literature and then Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, graduating with a Masters degree before going on to earn her Postgraduate Diploma in Secondary Education. Yee-Wa worked as an editor in a publishing house for five years before her short story 'The Shark' won the prestigious Hong Kong Champion Award for Creative Writing in Chinese in 2016.
She was the featured author on our Bookclub in May-June this year, so you can find out more about her here, and also read an excerpt from Tongueless.
Jennifer Feeley is the translator of Lau Yee-Wa's Tongueless, Xi Xi’s Mourning a Breast, Not Written Words: Selected Poetry of Xi Xi, and Carnival of Animals: Xi Xi’s Animal Poems, as well as Chen Jiatong’s White Fox series and Wong Yi's Cantonese chamber opera libretto Women Like Us. She is the recipient of the 2017 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize and a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship.
The event is free but please reserve your place here.
Refreshments provided, and there'll be a bookstall where you can buy copies of Tongueless, thanks to Truman's Books.
