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Dorothy Tse Hiu-hung (Chinese: 謝曉虹, born 1977) is a Hong Kong author and an assistant professor of creative writing at Hong Kong Baptist University.[1]

Writing career

Dorothy Tse writes primarily in Chinese. Her first short story collection, So Black (《好黑》), was published in 2005. A Dictionary of Two Cities (《雙城辭典》), a novel which she co-authored with Hon Lai-chu (韓麗珠), another Hong Kong writer, was published in 2013. Tse was awarded the 2013 Hong Kong Book Prize for A Dictionary of Two Cities.[2] She had previously won the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature for So Black.[3] Her literary prizes also include Taiwan's Unitas New Fiction Writers’ Award and the Hong Kong Award for Creative Writing in Chinese.[4] Tse published her first solo novel, Owlish [zh], in 2020. It was awarded a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant and nominated for the Taipei International Book Exhibition Book Price.[5][6]

Tse's first English short story, "Woman Fish",[7] a surreal story about a man whose wife turns into a fish, appeared in 2013 in The Guardian. Her first full-length book in English, Snow and Shadow, was published in 2014 by Hong Kong publisher Muse. Snow and Shadow is a collection of short stories from her earlier Chinese books, as well as previously unpublished works, all translated by Nicky Harman.[8]

Tse writes in a surrealist style. Her translator Nicky Harman describes her writing as: “surreal tales—fantastic in parts—but made the more effective for being grounded firmly in reality... Dreamscapes interlock with a narrative which, though superficially realistic, itself feels quite unreal.”[9]

Tse is co-founder of the Hong Kong literary magazine Fleurs des lettres and attended The University of Iowa's International Writing Program in 2011.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Department of Humanities and Creative Writing // Hong Kong Baptist University". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2014-04-14.
  2. ^ Local Literature: Two Flowers of the Hong Kong Book Prize (in Chinese), Ming Pao, Life, 11 July 2013
  3. ^ I Subtly Paint My City in Black (in Chinese), Wen Wei Po, 26 December 2005
  4. ^ Tse Dorothy Hiu Hung, The Paper Republic, archived from the original on 2014-04-02, retrieved 2014-04-14
  5. ^ Annie Hayter (2023-02-05). "Owlish review: 'No ordinary tale of male angst and frustrated desire'". Big Issue. Archived from the original on 2023-02-07. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  6. ^ "2021台北國際書展大獎　鏡文學《鬼地方》入圍小說獎10強". Mirror Media. 2020-11-28. Archived from the original on 2023-02-04. Retrieved 2023-01-30.
  7. ^ ""Woman Fish" // The Guardian". Archived from the original on 2016-07-22. Retrieved 2016-12-11.
  8. ^ Nicky Harman, The Paper Republic, archived from the original on 2014-03-17, retrieved 2014-04-14
  9. ^ Snow and Shadow, Muse, March 2014, pp. 9–11 (Translator's Introduction)
  10. ^ "Dorothy Tse bio // International Writing Program, The University of Iowa". Archived from the original on 2014-04-15. Retrieved 2014-04-14.
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