Pik-Shuen Fung is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel ''Ghost Forest'' was the winner of the

Amazon.ca First Novel Award The Amazon.ca First Novel Award, formerly the Books in Canada First Novel Award, is a Canadian literary award, co-presented by Amazon.ca and ''The Walrus'' to the best first novel in English language, English published the previous year by a citize ...

in 2022. Born in

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and raised in

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, she currently lives in

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. 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". Published by Strange Light in July 2021, it was named by

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as one of the best Canadian novels of 2021. ''Ghost Forest'' was also the winner of the 2022

Kobo Emerging Writer Prize The Kobo Emerging Writer Prize is a Canadian literary award, presented since 2015 by online e-book and audiobook retailer and eReader manufacturer Rakuten Kobo Rakuten Kobo Inc., or simply Kobo, is a Canadian company that sells ebooks, audioboo ...

in the fiction category.Cassandra Drudi
"Jesse Wente, Pik-Shuen Fung, Damhnait Monoghan named winners of 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer prizes"
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'', June 23, 2022.

References

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