Kit Fan

Kit Fan is a novelist, poet and critic. His novels Diamond Hill (2021) and Goodbye Chinatown (2026) were published by World Editions. His poetry collection, The Ink Cloud Reader (2023), was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and Forward Prize. He was shortlisted twice for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, and was a winner of the Hong Kong University International Poetry Prize, Northern Writers Awards for Poetry and Fiction, Times/Stephen Spender Poetry Translation Prize and POETRY’s Editors Prize for Reviewing. He has written for the Guardian, Times Literary Supplement and Telegraph. Born and educated in Hong Kong, he now lives in the UK.

Kit Fan

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