Lydia Kwa

Lydia Kwa
Born1959 (age 64–65)
Singapore
Occupationnovelist, short story writer, poet
NationalityCanadian
Period1990s-present
Notable worksThis Place Called Absence, The Walking Boy
Website
www.lydiakwa.com

Lydia Kwa (born 1959 in Singapore)[1] is a Canadian writer and psychologist.

First coming to Canada in 1980,[1] Kwa studied psychology at the University of Toronto and Queen's University.[1] She published one short story and a volume of poetry in the 1990s,[2] but has concentrated primarily on novels since. In addition to her writing, she continues to practice as a clinical therapist in Vancouver, British Columbia.[1] She was a nominee for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2000, the ReLit Award in 2001 and the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction in 2002 for This Place Called Absence, and for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2006 for The Walking Boy.[1]

She is an out lesbian.[3][4]

Works

  • The Colour of Heroines (1994, poetry)
  • This Place Called Absence (2000, novel)
  • The Walking Boy (2005, novel)
  • Pulse (2010, novel)
  • Sinuous (2013, poetry)
  • "The Right Hand" (2017, short story)
  • Oracle Bone (2017, novel)[5]
  • The Walking Boy (2019, novel)--a rewrite of the 2005 novel, now a sequel to Oracle Bone[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Lydia Kwa at Ryerson University Library's Asian Heritage in Canada database.
  2. ^ Guiyou Huang and Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, eds. Asian-American Poets: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002. ISBN 0313318093.
  3. ^ "Ancient China Gives Up Its Secrets". Vancouver Sun, October 1, 2005.
  4. ^ W. H. New, Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada (chapter "Gay and Lesbian Writing", pp. 418-422). University of Toronto Press, 2002. ISBN 0802007619.
  5. ^ Tham, William. "Book Review: 'Oracle Bone' by Lydia Kwa." Ricepaper. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  6. ^ Colbert, Jade (2019-03-30). "A book reborn: Lydia Kwa breathing new life into The Walking Boy is inspirational". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2019-11-01.


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