Eunice Lam

She also wrote regular columns for the Ming Pao, and Jin Yong, the famous writer who founded the newspaper, praised her as the "best modern woman essayist".

Her lengthy extra-marital relationship with the celebrated songwriter Wong Jim garnered her media attention.

[citation needed] She published more than eighty books,[4] including Crazy (癡), Fate (缘), Alliance (盟) and The Burial of Youth (青春之葬).

[3] She was also a regular columnist for the Chinese-language newspapers Ming Pao and the Hong Kong Daily News,[6] praised by Jin Yong as the "best modern woman essayist".

[4][5] Lam found herself in the media spotlight for having maintained a 14-year extra-marital relationship with Wong Jim, the celebrated Hong Kong songwriter, which began in 1976 when they were both working for the broadcaster TVB; the affair caused the break-up of his first marriage.