Xu Xi | |
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Born | 1954 (age 69–70) |
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Occupation | Novelist |
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Traditional Chinese | 許素細 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 许素细 | ||||||||||
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Xu Xi (born 1954, originally named Xu Su Xi (许素细) also published as Sussy Chakó[1]) is an English language novelist from Hong Kong.[2]
She is also the Hong Kong regional editor of Routledge's Encyclopedia of Post-colonial Literature (second edition, 2005) and the editor or co-editor of the following anthologies of Hong Kong writing in English: Fifty-Fifty: New Hong Kong Writing (2008), City Stage: Hong Kong Playwriting in English (2005), and City Voices: Hong Kong Writing in English Prose & Poetry from 1945 to the present. Her work has also been anthologized internationally. Hong Kong magazines such as Muse run her writings from time to time, and her fiction and essays have appeared in literary journals such as the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Four Quarters Magazine, Ninth Letter, Arts & Letters, Wasafiri, Hotel Amerika, and Asia Literary Review.