Lydia Kwa | Plume Winnipeg

Lydia Kwa

Lydia Kwa is the author of the novels This Place Called Absence (shortlisted for the Books in Canada First Novel Award), The Walking Boy (shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize), and Pulse, as well as two books of poetry, The Colours of Heroines and sinuous. Her latest book, Oracle Bone (Arsenal Pulp), is a magic-realist novel set in seventh-century China. Featuring ghosts, martial arts, and the transformative oracle bone, it subverts traditional tropes of Chinese mythology to tell a tale of greed, faith, and female empowerment with a modern sensibility. Born in Singapore, Lydia Kwa lives and works in Vancouver as a writer and psychologist.

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Events

June 8, 2019 - 1:30 pm

What Colours Make Up Your Character with Lydia Kwa Past Event

Millennium Library
June 7, 2019 - 4:30 pm

Inside the Writers World: Readings and Conversation with Lydia Kwa and Andrew Pyper Past Event

Millennium Library
September 23, 2017 - 7:30 pm

MAINSTAGE Weekend Edition: Queering the Canon Past Event

Part of THIN AIR 2017The Mainstage

Manitoba Theatre for Young People (MTYP)
- 3:30 pm

The Poisoned Chalice Past Event

Part of THIN AIR 2017The Poisoned Chalice

The Good Will Social Club
September 22, 2017 - 12:30 pm

Campus Program – Lydia Kwa Past Event

Part of THIN AIR 2017

University of Winnipeg

Books

The Walking Boy

Lydia Kwa
Colours of Heroines

Lydia Kwa
The Walking Boy

Lydia Kwa
This Place Called Absence

Lydia Kwa
Sinuous

Lydia Kwa
Pulse

Lydia Kwa
Oracle Bone

Lydia Kwa

Events

What Colours Make Up Your Character with Lydia Kwa Past Event

Inside the Writers World: Readings and Conversation with Lydia Kwa and Andrew Pyper Past Event

MAINSTAGE Weekend Edition: Queering the Canon Past Event

The Poisoned Chalice Past Event

Campus Program – Lydia Kwa Past Event

Books

The Walking Boy

Colours of Heroines

The Walking Boy

This Place Called Absence

Sinuous

Pulse

Oracle Bone