- Ying Chen
Ying Chen (应晨,
pinyin :Yìng Chén) (born1961 ) is aChinese Canadian author. She writes in French. Her surname in Chinese is "Ying".Born in
1961 inShanghai , she now lives inVancouver and is the mother of two children. She obtained a degree in French language and literature fromFudan University (复旦大学) in1983 and worked as a translator and interpreter before moving to Montreal in1989 . She later lived inMagog, Quebec before moving to Vancouver in2003 .Ying Chen's novels include "La mémoire de l'eau", "Les lettres chinoises", "L'ingratitude" (which won the Prix Québec-Paris, and was published in the U.S. as "Ingratitude," translated by Carol Volk), "Immobile" (which won the Prix Alfred-DesRochers), "Le champ dans la mer" and "Querelle d'un squelette avec son double". She practices a lean, polished and deceptively simple writing style, free of flourishes and excess verbiage. As a child, one of her schoolteachers once told her "the most simple is the most beautiful", and she has retained this idea.
In addition to French and Mandarin, she also speaks some Russian, Italian and English.
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List of Quebec authors External links
* [http://felix.cyberscol.qc.ca/LQ/auteurC/chen_y/immo_yin.html review and commentary on "Immobile"] (in French)
* [http://www.china.org.cn/chinese/RS/203801.htm China.com.cn interview] (in Chinese)
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