A novelist, YING CHEN is a French language and literature graduate of the Shanghai University. She moved to Montreal in 1989 and obtained a master’s degree in creative writing from McGill University. After her first novel, La mémoire de l’eau, she wrote L’ingratitude. Translated in several languages, this book was nominated for the 1995 Prix Fémina, as well as for the Governor General’s Award. It earned her the Quebec-Paris Award. Since then, she’s published two other novels, Immobile and Le Champs dans la mer, and a third one, Querelle d’un squelette avec son double, that has just come out at Éditions du Boréal and at Éditions du Seuil. In the past, YING CHEN has also published poems, short stories and an essay.


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