13:00 Uhr, Saletta: Regina Kanyu Wang (Lesung in Englisch)
Regina Kanyu Wang is bringing her latest short story collection Das Meeresfrüchterestaurant: Science Fiction Kurzgeschichten and Hugo Award finalist story Zhurong auf dem Mars: Kapsel Band 6: Fantastische Geschichten aus China to German readers. She will read her stories and discuss about her writing as well as research on Chinese science fiction.
Regina Kanyu Wang is a writer, researcher, and editor, currently a research fellow under the CoFUTURES project at the University of Oslo. She has also been an Applied Imagination Fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Science and the Imagination. She writes science fiction, nonfiction and academic essays in both Chinese and English. She is co-editor of the Chinese SF special issue of Vector, The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories: A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy in Translation from a Visionary Team of Female and Nonbinary Creators, New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction, and the English version of The Making of The Wandering Earth: A Film Production Handbook. Her stories can be found in her short story collections Of Cloud and Mist 2.2 and The Seafood Restaurant, various magazines and anthologies, and annual best collections. She has been translated into over ten languages and been invited to writing residences in Las Vegas and Berlin. She has won nine Chinese Nebula Awards, and been a finalist of three Hugo Awards and one Locus Award, for her stories, reviews, editorial works, and more.
Kapsel: https://kapsel-magazin.de/