Pik-Shuen Fung

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

1. "Pik-Shuen Fung’s ‘Ghost Forest’ wins Amazon Canada First Novel Award". Toronto Star, June 1, 2022.
2. "Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung wins $60K Amazon First Novel Award". CBC Books, June 1, 2022.
3. 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.
4. "The best Canadian fiction of 2021". CBC Books, December 7, 2021.
5. Cassandra Drudi, "Jesse Wente, Pik-Shuen Fung, Damhnait Monoghan named winners of 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer prizes". Quill & Quire, June 23, 2022.