Wong Bik-Wan


Wong Bik-wan or Huang Biyun is a Hong Kong writer. She has received multiple literary awards in Hong Kong, and is cited in The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature as a major contemporary writer.

Early life

Wong was born into a Hong Kong Hakka family. She did part of her high school in Taiwan.

Education and early career

Wong graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with a BA majoring in journalism and communication in 1984. She then worked as a screenwriter for TVB for a year. In 1987, she studied French and French literature at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. In 1988, she travelled to New York to work at a Chinese-language press in New York. She then received her MA degree in criminology under the Department of Sociology in the University of Hong Kong. Meanwhile, she also obtained a Diploma of Legal Studies in the HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education. Apart from her work as a fiction writer, she has worked as a reporter for The Standard, as a legislative assistant, and as a screenwriter for a broadcasting company.

Writing style

Although her use of words and style often change with time, she still sticks to common themes like death, diseases, love and darkness. Some touch upon the year 1997 when Hong Kong was handed over to the People's Republic of China.

Works

Novels and short stories

  • 小城無故事 Xiaocheng wu gushi
  • 溫柔與暴烈 Wenrou yu baolie, Tenderness and Violence
  • 她是女子，我也是女子 Ta shi nüzi, wo ye shi nüzi
  • 七宗罪 Qi zong zui
  • 突然我記起你的臉 Turan wo jiqi ni de lian
  • 烈女圖 Lienü tu
  • 七種靜默 Qi zhong jingmo
  • 媚行者 Meixing zhe
  • 十二女色 Shier nüse
  • 無愛紀 Wuai ji
  • 血卡門 Xie kamen
  • 其後 Qihou
  • 沉默暗啞微小 Chenmo, anya, weixiao
  • 末日酒店 Mori jiudian
  • 烈佬傳 Lielao zhuan, Children of Darkness
  • 微喜重行 Weixi chongxing
  • 盧麒之死 ''Luqi zhi si, The Death of Lo Kei''

Prose and essays

  • 揚眉女子Yangmei nüzi
  • 我們如此很好 Women ruci henhao
  • 又喊又笑：阿婆口述歷史 You han you xiao: apo koushu lishi
  • 後殖民誌 Hou zhimin zhi