Kit Fan

Kit Fan è un poeta, romanziere e critico nato e formatosi a Hong Kong prima del trasferimento nel Regno Unito all’età di ventun anni. La sua prima raccolta di poesie, "Paper Scissors Stone" (2011), ha vinto l'Hong Kong University International Poetry Prize. "As Slow as Possible" (2018) è stato raccomandato dalla Poetry Book Society e incluso tra i libri dell'anno dell'Irish Times. È stato selezionato due volte per il Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize. Ha vinto il Northern Writers Awards per la narrativa e la poesia, il Times Stephen Spender Poetry Translation Prize e il Poetry Magazine Editors' Prize for Reviewing. Il suo romanzo d'esordio è "Diamond Hill" (2021). "The Ink Cloud Reader" è la sua terza raccolta di poesie. È stato eletto membro della Royal Society of Literature nel 2022. Vive a York. -------------------- Kit Fan is a poet, novelist and critic born and educated in Hong Kong before moving to the UK at twenty-one. His first poetry collection," Paper Scissors Stone" (2011), won the Hong Kong University International Poetry Prize." As Slow as Possible" (2018) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and one of the Irish Times Books of the Year. He was shortlisted twice for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize. He won the Northern Writers Awards for Fiction and for Poetry, the Times Stephen Spender Poetry Translation Prize, and Poetry Magazine Editors’ Prize for Reviewing. His debut novel is "Diamond Hill" (2021). "The Ink Cloud Reader" is his third poetry collection. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022. He lives in York.