Zhang Ling-"Is language just a language?"

 Author Zhang Ling (张翎) will discuss her experience writing in both Chinese and English and having her works translated into both languages. She will share the challenges and excitement she has faced while using her second language to create a story specific to her home culture, especially during a period of wars and political turmoil.

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BIO: Zhang Ling （张翎）is the award-winning author of ten novels and numerous collections of novellas and short stories. Born in China, she moved to Canada in 1986. In the mid-1990s, she began to write and publish fiction in Chinese while working as a clinical audiologist. Since then, she has won the Chinese Media Literature Award for Author of the Year, the Grand Prize of Overseas Chinese Literary Award, and Taiwan’s Open Book Award. Among Zhang Ling’s works are Where Waters Meet, A Single Swallow, Gold Mountain Blues andAftershock, which was adapted into China’s first IMAX movie with unprecedented box-office success. Where Waters Meet is her first novel written in English.