Pik-Shuen Fung
Canadian writer
Pik-Shuen Fung is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel Ghost Forest was the winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2022.[1]
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, she currently lives in New York City.[2]
Based in part on her own childhood, the novel centers on a Hong Kong immigrant family in Canada, whose family life is marked by the protagonist's father remaining in Hong Kong as an "astronaut father".[3] Published by Strange Light in July 2021, it was named by CBC Books as one of the best Canadian novels of 2021.[4]
Ghost Forest was also the winner of the 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in the fiction category.[5]
References
- ^ "Pik-Shuen Fung’s ‘Ghost Forest’ wins Amazon Canada First Novel Award". Toronto Star, June 1, 2022.
- ^ "Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung wins $60K Amazon First Novel Award". CBC Books, June 1, 2022.
- ^ Michelle Cyca, "Elegant elegy for an astronaut father; Universality of grief shines through in moving debut novel about a Chinese-Canadian family". The Province, July 18, 2021.
- ^ "The best Canadian fiction of 2021". CBC Books, December 7, 2021.
- ^ Cassandra Drudi, "Jesse Wente, Pik-Shuen Fung, Damhnait Monoghan named winners of 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer prizes". Quill & Quire, June 23, 2022.
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Winners of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award
- Ian McLachlan and Michael Ondaatje (1977)
- Oonah McFee (1978)
- Joan Barfoot (1979)
- Clark Blaise (1980)
- W. D. Valgardson (1981)
- Joy Kogawa (1982)
- W. P. Kinsella (1983)
- Heather Robertson (1984)
- Geoffrey Ursell (1985)
- Wayne Johnston (1986)
- Karen Lawrence (1987)
- Marion Quednau (1988)
- Rick Salutin (1989)
- Sandra Birdsell (1990)
- Nino Ricci (1991)
- Rohinton Mistry (1992)
- John Steffler (1993)
- Deborah Joy Corey (1994)
- Shyam Selvadurai (1995)
- Keath Fraser (1996)
- Anne Michaels (1997)
- Margaret Gibson (1998)
- André Alexis (1999)
- David Macfarlane and Alan R. Wilson (2000)
- Eva Stachniak (2001)
- Michael Redhill (2002)
- Mary Lawson (2003)
- Michel Basilières (2004)
- Colin McAdam (2005)
- Joseph Boyden (2006)
- Madeleine Thien (2007)
- Gil Adamson (2008)
- Joan Thomas (2009)
- Jessica Grant (2010)
- Eleanor Catton (2011)
- David Bezmozgis (2012)
- Anakana Schofield (2013)
- Wayne Grady (2014)
- Alix Hawley (2015)
- Mona Awad (2016)
- Katherena Vermette (2017)
- Michael Kaan (2018)
- Casey Plett (2019)
- Stéphane Larue (2020)
- Michelle Good (2021)
- Pik-Shuen Fung (2022)
- Jasmine Sealy (2023)
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