After brief periods of study at the Lu Xun Academy in Beijing and Shanghai’s Fudan University, Hong Ying moved to London in 1991 where she settled as a writer.
Hong Ying’s work has been published in twenty languages and has appeared on the bestseller lists of numerous countries.
She won the Prize of Rome for K: the Art of Love in 2005 and many of her books have been or are now in the process of being turned into television series and films.
Her responsibility as a writer, she believes, is in part to explore the lives of marginalised groups struggling for visibility – and for compassion – in contemporary China.
In recent years, Hong Ying has written a number of books for children: Mimidola: the River Child;[1] The Girl from the French Fort; The Legend of Liya; New Moon Rise.