Ying Chen - 39th Annual Literary Festival - "Strange Bedfellows: Politics and Literature"
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- Date/Time
- 09/29/2016 4:00 PM EST - 5:00 PM EST
- Location
- Diehn Center for the Performing Arts
- Fee
- Free
- Description
- Born in Shanghai in 1961, Ying Chen studied language and literature at the University of Fudan and McGill University. She has published thirteen books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, including her most recent book of essays, The Slow Mountains, which received the Gérald-Moreau Award for Francophone Writing. She has received numerous other awards including a France-Canada prize, a Quebec Librarian prize, and Elle Magazine’s Readers Prize. She was named Chevalière en Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture in 2003. She lives in Vancouver. Ying Chen will read in French with an accompanying translation by ODU Professor Peter Schulman.
