Department of Comparative Literature
Melon @ HKU: Women in Science Fiction
Speakers: Jo Walton, Aliette de Bodard, Regina Kanyu Wang, Rebecca F. Kuang
Speakers’ bio:
Jo Walton
Jo Walton is author of 13 Sci-Fi and fantasy novels, with her latest, Lent, due out in May. She has won many awards including Hugo and Nebula awards for Among Others, and the Tiptree Award for My Real Children in 2015. Jo is from Wales, but emigrated to Montreal in Canada in 2002. She plans to live to be 99 and write a book every year.
Aliette de Bodard
Aliette de Bodard lives and works in Paris. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Obsidian and Blood trilogy of Aztec noir fantasies, as well as numerous short stories that have garnered her two Nebula Awards, a Locus Award and two British Science Fiction Association Awards
Regina Kanyu Wang
Regina Kanyu Want is a bilingual writer from Shanghai, and graduate of Fudan University. She is a member of Shanghai Writer’s Association and the World Chinese Sci-Fi Association, and has been invited as a guest of Shanghai-Taipei Literary camp, the Euro-Asia Economic Forum and Sun Yat-Sen University Writing Residency.
Rebecca F. Kuang
Rebecca F. Kuang was born in Guangzhou, emigrated to the US in 2000, and has a BA from Georgetown University. Her debut novel The Poppy War was published by Harper Voyager in 2018 and was a Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist and one of Time’s Best Books of 2018. The sequel The Dragon Republic comes out in August
Moderators:
Dr. Alvin Wong, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Mr. William Lau, English Language Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Date: Friday 22 March 2019
Time: 4-6 PM
Venue: 4.36, 4/F, Sir Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
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