Janice YK Lee
Janice YK Lee (born 1972 in Hong Kong ) is an American author.
Life
Janice YK Lee was born to Korean emigrants in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong . She attended school in the USA and studied literature at Harvard College and later did an MFA at Hunter College . She worked as an editor for Elle and Mirabella magazines and also wrote for Glamor , Travel and Leisure magazines .
Her first novel, The Piano Teacher , was on the New York Times bestseller list for 19 weeks in 2009 . It has been translated into 26 languages.
In the novel The Piano Teacher , she described the situation of migrants in Hong Kong in the 1940s and 1950s. In her second novel, published in 2016, three women from contemporary America land in Hong Kong to live there as expatriates for some time .
Lee is married with four children and lives in New York.
Works (selection)
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The Piano Teacher . New York: Viking Penguin, 2008
- The piano teacher . Translation Barbara Heller. Munich: Bertelsmann, 2010
- The expatriates . New York: Viking Penguin, 2016
Web links
- Literature by and about Janice YK Lee in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Janice YK Lee in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Janice YK Lee , website (en)
- Lauren Mechling: Janice YK Lee: Playing for Time , Interview, in: The Wall Street Journal , January 9, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anna James: Small world , in: Financial Times , January 10, 2016, p. 11
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lee, Janice YK |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hong Kong |