Nicole Mones (born 1952) is an American
novelist and food writer.
Biography
As of March 2014 she has published four novels, including ''
Lost in Translation'', which appeared in 1998, ''
A Cup of Light
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'' (2002), and ''
The Last Chinese Chef'', (2007), and in March 2014,
Night in Shanghai ''Lost in Translation'' won the 2000
Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize awarded by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies and the Department of English at the
University of Rochester for best work of fiction by an American woman, and also the Pacific Northwest Annual Book Award,
a five-state prize. "The Last Chinese Chef" was the only American finalist for the international Kiriyama Prize
and also a World Gourmand Award winner in the Chinese cookbook category, although it is a novel with no recipes. Mones' novels have been translated into at least 17 languages. She also contributes articles about
Chinese cuisine to ''
Gourmet'' magazine, and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times.
Biography
Mones did business in China for 18 years from 1977, running a textile concern, and all four of her published novels are set mainly in China. In all of them, a love story is entwined around a detailed and accurate description of a facet of Chinese culture: in ''Lost in Translation'', the heroine becomes involved in an
archaeological
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expedition to find the remains of
Peking Man; the action of ''A Cup of Light'' turns around a rare collection of
Chinese porcelain; ''The Last Chinese Chef'', as its name suggests, features Chinese cuisine; and ''Night in Shanghai'' is the story of African-American musicians in Shanghai during the jazz age and what happened when World War II exploded around them.
Mones currently lives in
Portland, Oregon.
Novels
* ''Lost in Translation'' − 1998
* ''A Cup of Light'' – 2002
* ''The Last Chinese Chef'' – 2007
* ''Night in Shanghai'' – 2014
Non-fiction
"Why Can't They See Things Like We Do?"– ''Los Angeles Times'' – May 16, 1999
"Kitchen Warriors"– ''Gourmet Magazine'' – October 2003
"The Road to Shangri-La"– ''Gourmet Magazine'' – June 2007
– ''The Washington Post'' – July 27, 2008
– ''New York Times Magazine'' – August 5, 2007
Interviews
* NPR â€
''Weekend Edition''– May 6, 2007
* NPR â€
''Weekend Edition''– March 8, 2014
* Clear Channel â€
''The Arik Korman Show''– April 16, 2014
References
Citations
Bibliography
* Book covers
* Publishers' and booksellers' sites
* Nicole Mones' web site
* Various Book Prize websites
* Review Sites
External links
Nicole Mones' home page
* https://web.archive.org/web/20140323020838/http://www.pnba.org/awards/1999BookAwards.pdf
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20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American women novelists
1952 births
Living people
Writers from Portland, Oregon
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
Novelists from Oregon
American women non-fiction writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers