'Tongueless': Lau Yee-Wa and Jennifer Feeley in Conversation
Mon 4 Nov 2024 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
University of Leeds, Baines Wing room 2.10
Description
We're delighted to be welcoming author Lau Yee-Wa and translator Jennifer Feeley to Leeds, to discuss the novel Tongueless. This event has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
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.
Location
University of Leeds, Baines Wing room 2.10