Wong Yi

Wong Yi is a Hong Kong writer and editor for the literary journal Fleurs des lettres. She graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Social Sciences in Psychology and Comparative Literature, and holds a Masters of Arts in English from King’s College London. She has won several literary awards, including the 2018 Hong Kong Arts Development Award for Young Artist (Literary Arts). In 2020, she was named one of the “20 most anticipated young Sinophone novelists” by the Taiwanese literary magazine Unitas.

She is the author of four short story collections – Ways To Love In A Crowded City (2021), The Four Seasons of Lam Yip (2019), Patched Up (2015), and News Stories (2010) .Her works have been anthologized, and selected stories and essays were translated into English by Jennifer Feeley and published as Lam Yip’s Neighborhood (Spicy Fish Cultural Production, 2019). She has been a judge at local literary competitions, and a columnist at various local newspapers and magazines, including Ming Pao Weekly, Sunday Ming Pao, Fleurs des lettres, Linepaper, Hong Kong Pupil Literary Monthly Magazine and Tai Tau Choi Literary Monthly Magazine.

She participated in the 2019 Singapore Writers Festival, and was the Hong Kong Writer-in-residence for Hong Kong Baptist University's first Chinese Writers Workshop in 2021. Her collaborative work with artists from other disciplines includes participation in the Los Angeles Architecture Exhibition Island__Peninsula organised by The Hong Kong Institute of Architects in 2019, writing the libretto for the Cantonese-language chamber opera Women Like Us (commissioned and produced by the Hong Kong Arts Festival, premiered in May 2021), and writing an original text for the multimedia concert The Happy Family (part of Tai Kwun’s "SPOTLIGHT: A Season of Performing Arts”, premiered in October 2021).

Source: Goethe-Institut Hongkong
Wong Yi