Lindsay Wong
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Lindsay Wong | |
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 Lindsay Wong in 2022 | |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Years active | 2018–present |
| Notable works | The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family |
| Notable awards | Hubert Evans Non-Fiction 2019 |
| Website | |
| lindsaywongwriter | |
Lindsay Wong is a Canadian writer, whose memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family was published in 2018.[1] The book, a humorous memoir about her Chinese Canadian family's history of mental illness,[2] won the 2019 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize[3] and was a shortlisted finalist for the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.[4]
Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia,[5] Wong wrote the book while pursuing graduate studies at Columbia University in New York City.[1][6]
The Woo-Woo was selected for the 2019 edition of Canada Reads, where it was defended by Joe Zee,[7] and was longlisted for the 2019 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.[8]
Wong's book Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality: Stories came out in 2023,[9] and was shortlisted for the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes in 2024.[10]
