DUNG Kai-cheung 董啟章

2017 Visitor
2017 50th Anniversary Guest
  • Asia
  • Eastern Asia
  • Hong Kong

Dung Kai-cheung 董啟章 (Hong Kong, IWP '09) is most recently the author of Cantonese Love Stories: Twenty-five Vignettes of a City (2017). In 2014 he was named the Hong Kong Book Fair Author of the Year. Dung’s translation, with Anders Hansson and Bonnie S. McDougall, of his novel Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City into English won the Best Translated Work prize at the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards (2013). He teaches creative writing and literature at universities in Hong Kong.  

Happening Now

  • We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

  • Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.

  • Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.

  • Ranjit Hoskote’s speech at the 2024 Goa Literary Festival addresses the current situation in Gaza.

  • In NY Times, Bina Shah worries about the state of Pakistani—and American—democracy.

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