Mary Jean Chan

Fleche

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

WINNER OF THE COSTA POETRY AWARDPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONFlà che (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan's young adult years, when they competed locally and internationally for their home city, Hong Kong.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 159mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 144g
• ISBN-13: 9780571348046
• ISBN-10: 0571348041
• Artikelnr.: 57085349

Autorenporträt

Mary Jean Chan is the author of Flèche (Faber, 2019), which won the Costa Book Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, the Jhalak Prize, the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award. An Italian translation of Flèche by Giorgia Sensi was published by Interno Poesia in 2023. Chan co-edited the acclaimed anthology 100 Queer Poems (Vintage, 2022) with Andrew McMillan. Bright Fear (Faber, 2023), Chan's second collection, is a Poetry Book Society Autumn Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2023 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Chan is the 2023-24 Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at the University of Cambridge and served as a judge for the 2023 Booker Prize. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Chan lives in Oxford.