Goodbye Chinatown (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781642861655)

Kit Fan is a novelist, poet and critic. His first novel, also published by World Editions, is Diamond Hill (2021). Goodbye Chinatown is his second novel. His third poetry collection, The Ink Cloud Reader (2023), was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and Forward Prize. He was shortlisted twice for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, and was a winner of the Hong Kong University International Poetry Prize, Northern Writers Awards for Poetry and Fiction, Times/Stephen Spender Poetry Translation Prize and POETRY's Editors Prize for Reviewing. He has written for the Guardian, Times Literary Supplement and Telegraph. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Vice-Chair of Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) and Co-Chair of the Copyright Licensing Agency(CLA). He was born and educated in Hong Kong and now lives in the UK.