An internationally acclaimed author, who studied creative writing at Lancaster University, is all set to return to the city to launch her new book next month.

Lancaster University postgraduate Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, now a highly successful author, will read from and talk about her new book, ‘Dust Child’, set during the Việt Nam War and in contemporary Sài Gòn.

The hour-long event, on April 25 at 7pm, will be held at The Storey in Meeting House Lane, Lancaster.

The visit is hosted by Litfest, Lancaster’s renowned literary festival, in partnership with the University’s Department of English Literature and Creative Writing and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Decolonisation team.

Dust Child, hailed as ‘Dazzling. Sharply drawn and hauntingly beautiful’ by Elif Shafak, the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of ‘The Island of Missing Trees’, looks set to become as successful as her bestselling debut, ‘The Mountains Sing’.

She will be in conversation with lecturer Dr Zoe Lambert, from the University’s Department of English Literature and Creative Writing.

Quế Mai was born in the Red Delta of North Việt Nam and grew up in the Mekong Delta in Southern Vietnam. A writer and translator, she has published 12 books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction.

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