She has authored eight books in Chinese and won numerous awards, including the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature for fiction, Taiwan’s Unitas New Writer’s Novella first prize, and the Hong Kong Book Prize.
[1] Hon's clean, absurd and abstract style has been compared to Franz Kafka, and her intensely psychological stories often reflect her characters’ inner struggles for freedom, against the futility of attempts to find meaning in everyday existence; to Hon’s characters, the “way out” lies in transformation that comes from overturning established identities.
[4] The Kite Family, and Hon's next work, Gray Flower (《灰花》), were selected as Top 10 Chinese Novels World-wide for the years 2008 and 2009 respectively.
[5] A Dictionary of Two Cities (《雙城辭典》), which she co-authored with Dorothy Tse Hiu-hung (謝曉虹), another Hong Kong writer, was published in 2013.
[9] She was a participant in the 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale Special Project "Odyssey: Architecture and Literature", organised by Ou Ning.