Ying Chen

Ying Chen is a writer E sino-Québécois born with Shanghai in 1961. Ying Chen continues there its academic works until obtaining its French license-be-letters. In addition to the dialect of its area and Mandarin, she learned Russian, Italian, English and French. In 1989, it comes to study at the department of French language of the Université McGill. Today, she lives Magog, she is mother of two children.

Then to mislead the nostalgia of its native China, it is put at the writing until devoting twelve hours per day to it. When it begins its days, it is let rock by the musical quality the texts Marcel Proust whom it reads aloud. Its first novel the memory of water reports the history of contemporary China through the eyes of women of several generations. Its second Chinese Letters has as a subject the correspondence of a young immigrant with its been engaged remained in China, and testifies to the shock of the cultures, the uprooting and the impossibility of the love. Its novel ingratitude is worth the Quebec-Paris price to him decreed in February 1996 as well as the price of the readers of the It-Quebec review. Its very last Immobile novel is with savor of a fairy tale. Time is the main subject of this novel and it relates to the memory.

According to Élizabeth Benoit, newspaper the Press : “This novelist is an enchantress. ”

Honors

Works

  • Memory of water , Montreal, Leméac; Arles, Actes Sud, 1992
  • Chinese Letters , Montreal, Leméac, 1993
  • Ingratitude , Montreal, Leméac; Arles, Actes Sud, 1995 Motionless , Montreal, Boreal
  • ; Arles: Actes Sud, 1998
  • the Field in the sea , Montreal, Boreal; Paris, Threshold, 2002
  • Quarrel of a skeleton with its double , Montreal, Boreal; Paris, Threshold, 2003
  • Four Thousand Steps: a Chinese , Montreal, Boreal dream; Paris, Threshold, 2004
  • the Eater , Montreal, Boreal; Paris, Threshold, 2006

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