Join Kevin Chong at Booked! Fernie Writers’ Series for a discussion of his latest novel led by local author Angie Abdou.
Kevin Chong’s 2023 book The Double Life of Benson Yu was a finalist for the 2023 Giller Prize and named a Best Book of Canadian Fiction by the CBC.
Kevin was born in Hong Kong in 1975, moved to Canada in 1977. He is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, several of which have been named books of the year by Globe and Mail, National Post, and Amazon.ca. His work has been listed for a CBC prize, a BC Book Prize, and a National Magazine Award, optioned for film and TV, and published in the US, Europe, and Australia. His creative nonfiction and journalism have appeared in the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, the Rumpus, and the South China Morning Post.
He currently lives in Vancouver with his wife and kids and is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia.
