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The University of Hong Kong.
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Chan Chen
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He currently lives in Beijing. Previously, he worked as a reporter for the Hong Kong tabloid, The Star. In 1976 he co-founded City Magazine (號外) with Qiu Shiwen and Deng Xiaoyu and Hu Junyi.
In the 1990s he worked as an overseas publisher for the mainland literary journal Dushu (读书）, published by the China Publishing Group (中国出版集团) and Life, Reading, and Innovation Bookstore (生活读书新知三联书店).
In 1991 he played the role of Professor Liu Yuebai in Yan Hao and Xu Ke"s adaptation of A Cheng"s 1984 novel, The Chess Master. His dystopian novel The Fat Years (2009) was published in English by Doubleday in 2011.
lieutenant is a satirical metaphor of the unbalanced relations between China and Tibet. Koonchung was born in 1952 in Shanghai, China.
Koonchung earned his Bachelor from the University of Hong Kong and completed graduate study at Boston University.
2013 January Michalski Prize for Literature, finalist, The Fat Years.
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January Michalski Prize for Literature
January Michalski Prize for Literature is a Swiss literary prize for any work of fiction or non-fiction published anywhere in the world in any language.January Michalski Prize for Literature is a Swiss literary prize for any work of fiction or non-fiction published anywhere in the world in any language.