Celeste Ng

Celeste Ng
Ng in 2018
Ng in 2018
Born (1980-07-30) July 30, 1980 (age 44)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
OccupationNovelist, writer
Alma materHarvard University
University of Michigan
GenreFiction
Website
www.celesteng.com
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese伍綺詩
Simplified Chinese伍绮诗
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinWǔ Qǐshī
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingng5 ji2 si1

Celeste Ng (/səˈlɛst ˈɪŋ/ sə-LEST ING; Chinese: 伍绮诗[1]) (born July 30, 1980[2]) is an American writer and novelist.[3][4][5] She has released many short stories that have been published in a variety of literary journals.[6] Ng's first novel, Everything I Never Told You, released on June 26, 2014, won the Amazon Book of the Year award[3] as well as praise from critics. Ng's short story Girls at Play won a Pushcart Prize in 2012, and was a 2015 recipient of an Alex Award. Her second novel, Little Fires Everywhere, was published in 2017. The TV-miniseries based on the book premiered in 2020. Ng received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020.[7] Her most recent novel, Our Missing Hearts, was released on October 4, 2022.

  1. ^ "伍绮诗：亚裔作家不只有移民故事可讲，有很多故事可写". 澎湃新闻 (in Chinese). 上海东方报业有限公司. September 4, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2024.
  2. ^ "Celeste Ng - Knowledge & Wisdom". newengland.com. Yankee Publishing, Inc. October 24, 2018. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
  3. ^ a b Hoby, Hermione (November 17, 2014). "Amazon book of the year winner Celeste Ng: 'Writing's like shouting into the world'". The Guardian.
  4. ^ NPR Staff (June 28, 2014). "'Everything I Never Told You' Exposed in Biracial Family's Loss". NPR.
  5. ^ Connors, Joanna (July 9, 2014). "Writer Celeste Ng talks about growing up in Shaker Heights and her buzz novel of the summer, Everything I Never Told You". The Plain Dealer. Cleveland.com.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference celeste was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020". Archived from the original on April 12, 2020.