Weike Wang

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For the Chinese translator, see Wang Weike.

Weike Wang
Whiting Award
Websitewww.weikewangwrites.com

Weike Wang is a

PEN/Hemingway Award
.

Her fiction has been published in Glimmer Train, the Alaska Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, and Redivider.[2]

Life

Wang was born in Nanjing, China. Her family emigrated when she was five years old. She lived in Australia and Canada before arriving in the United States with her family at the age eleven.[3][2][4][5] Wang once described the community in which she lived as "a very rural town, and everyone was white. I was the only Asian person in my school."[6]

After high school, Wang attended Harvard University, where she studied chemistry for her undergraduate degree and public health for her doctorate. While she was pre-med as an undergraduate, she reconsidered going to medical school. While completing her doctorate, she also attended Boston University, where she received her MFA.[7][8]

Career

In 2017, Wang was selected by author Sherman Alexie for the National Book Foundation's annual 5 under 35 list. In its citation, the National Book Foundation called Wang "a brilliant new literary voice that astutely juxtaposes the elegance of science, the anxieties of finding a place in the world, and the sacrifices made for love and family."[9] In 2018, she received a Whiting Award for Fiction, one of ten awarded each year to emerging writers.[10]

Her 2018 short story "Omakase" was selected for inclusion in the

O. Henry Prize Anthology by prize jurors Lynn Freed, Elizabeth Strout, and Lara Vapnyar.[12][13]

Writing style

Critics have often noted that Wang rarely names her main characters in her major works.

Chemistry remains nameless throughout the novel, as do her parents and everyone except for the heroine's boyfriend, Eric.[15] Wang continued her trend of nameless characters in her short story "Omakase," which was published in The New Yorker in 2018.[16] "I am terrible at naming characters," Wang told The New Yorker in 2018, adding that she also considers context and her characters lives when she decides to leave them nameless.[17]

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

References

  1. ISSN 0028-792X
    . Retrieved May 12, 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Weike Wang". www.glimmertrain.com. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  3. ^ Weike Wang on "Come Together," House of SpeakEasy's Seriously Entertaining in 2022, retrieved July 10, 2023
  4. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved May 12, 2018.
  5. ^ "Weike Wang combines humor, science, and depression in debut novel 'Chemistry'". NBC News. Retrieved May 12, 2018.
  6. ^ "Science, Fiction: An Interview with Weike Wang". Asian American Writers' Workshop. January 31, 2018. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  7. ^ "Weike Wang's 'Chemistry' Wins $25,000 PEN/Hemingway Award – PEN America". PEN America. Retrieved May 12, 2018.
  8. ^ "Debut Author Weike Wang Wins $25,000 PEN/Hemingway Award for "Elliptical Prose" in Chemistry – PEN America". PEN America. Retrieved May 12, 2018.
  9. ^ "Weike Wang". National Book Foundation. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  10. ^ Woolhouse, Megan. "Weike Wang Wins Whiting Award". Bostonia. Boston University. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
  11. ISBN 9781328484246
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  12. ^ "Announcing the 100th Annual O. Henry Prize". LitHub. May 16, 2019. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  13. ISBN 9780525565536
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  14. ^ "'Chemistry: A Novel' Is About A Scientist Whose Plans Get Reconstituted". NPR.org. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  15. ISSN 0028-792X
    . Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  16. ISSN 0028-792X
    . Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  17. ISSN 0028-792X
    . Retrieved May 5, 2019.
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