Kit Fan FRSL (范進傑; born 1979) is an author and poet from Hong Kong who now lives in York in the United Kingdom.
[3] His first novel, Diamond Hill, was written between 2016 and 2019[4] and he received a Northern Writers Award for it while in progress in 2018; it was published in May 2021.
[5] It was described by The Guardian as "a thoroughly enjoyable and profound exploration of powerlessness, identity and the evolution of a city"[6] and by The Wall Street Journal as a "textured, unsettled portrait of a territory facing a decisive ending".
[4] Fan was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.
[8] In 2023, Fan was shortlisted for T. S. Eliot Prize for his poetry collection The Ink Cloud Reader[9]