About

Alice CHAN Yuen Shan earned her Bachelor of Arts in English with first-class honour in the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Sheffield in the UK in 2012. She started her literary writing by completing an English novel before using Chinese as the main language later. Her debut book of short stories ‘‘Fool the Wood’’ won the Hong Kong Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature in 2017. She then spent a year in South Korea where her second book of short stories ‘‘Image of Lung’’ was written.  Her newest novels ‘‘City on Stage’’ and ‘‘Anatomy of Light’’ were published in Tai Wan and Hong Kong respectively in 2022. From social illnesses, humanity distortion, abnormal normality to spiritual rediscovery, sensational comprehension and memory reconstruction, Alice connects her work to both the macroscopic world and the hidden self of individuals including herself. She has much joy colouring her work with magical realism and much pain in confronting herself in a current autofiction. As a winner of the New Taipei City Literature Awards in Tai Wan, she has been publishing her work in a wide range of newspapers and journals such as ‘‘Hong Kong Literary’’ and ‘‘Ming Pao’’. She now lives and works as a bilingual writer in the UK and Hong Kong.

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陳苑珊為2012年香港中文大學和英國雪菲爾大學英文系一級榮譽學士。她先以英文寫作長篇小說，其後改以中文創作。首部著作《愚木——短篇小說集》獲2017年香港中文文學雙年獎。她曾經旅居南韓，並於當地寫成《肺像——短篇小說集》。2022年她分別於台灣和香港出版最新長篇小說《演藝之城》和《光的解剖學》。陳苑珊的作品揭示社會弊病、人性歪相和畸形常態，並牽涉精神啟蒙、感官詮釋和回憶重塑，既回應廣大世界，也指向個人自我。她樂於以現實魔幻主義粉飾作品，也沉醉在目前寫作自傳小說的痛苦中。她的作品散見於《香港文學》和《明報》等刊物，亦曾獲台灣新北市文學獎。陳苑珊現為中英雙語作家，居於英國和香港。