Amanda Lee Koe is a fiction writer.
The working manuscript for her debut novel, Delayed Rays of A Star, won the 2017
Henfield Prize, awarded to the best work of fiction by a graduating MFA student
at Columbia University's Writing Program. Delayed Rays of A Star is forthcoming from Nan A. Talese/Doubleday (US) and Bloomsbury (UK) in summer 2019.
A 2013 fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and
a 2016 recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Grant, she was the youngest winner of the Singapore Literature Prize for her first short story collection, Ministry of Moral Panic (2013), shortlisted for the Frankfurt Book Fair's LiBeraturpreis and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt's Internationaler Literaturpreis in 2017.
She has guest-lectured at Yale and Goethe University on new narratives for approaching a deterritorialization of "World Literature". She is the fiction editor of Esquire Singapore, and has initiated mentorship programmes and community workshops for emerging writers, multi-racial translators, and senior citizens alike, and developed interdisciplinary projects for the National Library, the Asian Film Archive and HBO Asia.
Based in New York, she was born in Singapore to Straits Chinese parents, and has lived in Beijing, Bangkok and Berlin.
Amanda Lee Koe is a fiction writer.
The working manuscript for her debut novel, Delayed Rays of A Star, won the 2017
Henfield Prize, awarded to the best work of fiction by a graduating MFA student
at Columbia University's Writing Program. Delayed Rays of A Star is forthcoming from Nan A. Talese/Doubleday (US) and Bloomsbury (UK) in summer 2019.
A 2013 fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and
a 2016 recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Grant, she was the youngest winner of the Singapore Literature Prize for her first short story collection, Ministry of Moral Panic (2013), shortlisted for the Frankfurt Book Fair's LiBeraturpreis and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt's Internationaler Literaturpreis in 2017.
She has guest-lectured at Yale and Goethe University on new narratives for approaching a deterritorialization of "World Literature". She is the fiction editor of Esquire Singapore, and has initiated mentorship programmes and community workshops for emerging writers, multi-racial translators, and senior citizens alike, and developed interdisciplinary projects for the National Library, the Asian Film Archive and HBO Asia.
Based in New York, she was born in Singapore to Straits Chinese parents, and has lived in Beijing, Bangkok and Berlin.
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’ 我看你第一次和第二次不是一个人，第一次的你像一个运动员很勇敢，第二次的你很女人爱哭，不像运动员。。。‘
sick to the ears from writing my own writing now but still wanting badly to write (just not my own writing) absorbed as 18th c opium eater by self-hypnotic sensation of typing, by small and humble act of sitting down to weigh and smell and venerate words, so doing tiny translation exercise of decade-old email exchange with jejune uyghur soccer player puppy lover and thinking that unlike my writing everything M says is completely thing-in-itself unpretentious and what is a bio anyway ' to me you did not seem like the same person. when we first met you were very much an athlete, brave like one, the second time we met you were very much a woman, with a fondness for crying, not like an athlete at all. ' |