Ho Sok Fong
Ho Sok Fong 賀淑芳 | |
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 Hok at 2024 Shanghai Book Fair | |
| Born | November 26, 1970 Kedah, Malaysia |
| Occupation | Short-story writer |
| Nationality | Malaysian |
| Alma mater | Universiti Sains Malaysia, Nanyang Technological University |
| Genre | Fiction |
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Ho Sok Fong (Chinese: 賀淑芳; pinyin: Hè Shūfāng; Jyutping: Ho6 Suk6 Fong1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hō Siok-hong, November 26, 1970 -) is a Chinese Malaysian writer who teaches at Taipei National University of the Arts.[1] Many of her short stories have focused on women in modern Malaysian society, Mahua (Chinese-Malaysian) literature and culture, and the importance of ethnicity and religion in Malaysia. She currently resides in Taipei.[2]
Biography
[edit]Born in Kedah and trained as an engineer at the Universiti Sains Malaysia, Ho received a PhD in Chinese language and literature at Nanyang Technological University in 2017.[3] A short story from 2002, Bie zai tiqi (Never Mention It Again) was published in the anthology Huidao Malaiya. Huama xiaoshuo qishi nian (Return to Malaya: Stories by Chinese Malaysian Writers, 1937-2007).[4] She has published two short story collections in Chinese, Maze Carpet and Lake Like a Mirror. Lake Like a Mirror, published in English by Granta in the UK and Two Lines Press in the US, was translated by Natascha Bruce.[5] Among other accolades, Ho is the recipient of the 2015 Chiu Ko Fiction Prize, the 25th China Times Short Story Prize, the English PEN Award, and the United Press Short Story Prize.[6][7] Lake Like a Mirror was also longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation; Bruce was awarded a PEN Translates award for the translation.[8][9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Ho Sok Fong". Granta. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
- ^ "Ho Sok Fong". adda. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
- ^ "The Surreal Stories of "Lake Like a Mirror" Show How Power Distorts Reality". Electric Lit. April 28, 2020. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
- ^ Paoliello, Antonio (May 23, 2020). ""Bie zai tiqi" and You Mean the World to Me: Two Subversive Sinophone Malaysian Metatexts". Open Cultural Studies. 4 (1): 59. doi:10.1515/culture-2020-0006.
- ^ Jardim, Keith (2020). "Ho Sok Fong, Lake Like a Mirror: Stories". Southeast Asian Review of English. 57 (2): 115–118. doi:10.22452/sare.vol57no2.14. S2CID 234510176. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
- ^ "Lake Like a Mirror: Surreal but real stories of women in Malaysia". The Irish Times. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
- ^ "Ten Questions for Ho Sok Fong and Natascha Bruce". Poets & Writers. April 14, 2020. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
- ^ "6 Malaysian writers who are making waves in the 2020 literary scene". Options. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
- ^ "PEN Translates awards go to books from sixteen countries, in eleven languages". English PEN. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
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