Ying Chen

Gabrielle PARKER (University of Middlesex)

Ed. by Emir Delic, Université Sainte-Anne
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.4: Canadian Writing and Culture: Francophone .
Vol. editors: Emir Delic (Université Sainte-Anne), Eftihia Mihelakis (Brandon University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 1961
Activity 1992-ongoing

Places

Born in China
Active in Canada

Cultural Identities

French Canadian

Activities

Primary

Novelist

Other

Essayist

Resources

Since the publication of her first novel La mémoire de l’eau (1992) in Montreal, Ying Chen’s readership and reputation have expanded to reach Universities and the francophone world in Europe and North America. Published in both Canada and France and known principally for her fiction (she has published ten novels to date), she is first and foremost a writer who reflects on her project and experiments with other literary genres, contesting the limitations imposed by the very concept of genre. Tempted by drama (“L’égarement”, 2004) and attracted to poetry (Impressions d’été, 2008), she has also written a number of short essays in the form of prefaces, letters, brief addresses, first gathered in Quatre mille …

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Citation: PARKER, Gabrielle. "Ying Chen". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 07 July 2015 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13193, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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