Hong Kong-born poet, novelist, and critic Kit Fan invites us to consider themes such as family, gender, social inequality, and aspiration in his short story about an immigrant mother who works as a cleaner at the Hong Kong International Airport.

Kit Fan

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Kit Fan is a novelist, poet, and critic. Diamond Hill, his debut novel about Hong Kong, is published by Dialogue Books and World Editions in May 2021. His second poetry collection, As Slow As Possible 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, and a winner of Northern Writers Award, Times Stephen Spender Poetry Translation Prize, and POETRY’s Editors Prize for Reviewing.

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Kit Fan

Diamond Hill (Little Brown).

Diamond Hill (Little Brown).

“Duty Free”


 
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