Po Wah Lam (Wong Fellow 1998) was born in Liverpool and moved to Hong Kong at the age of six months. He then returned to the UK at the age of 7.  He studied interior design at Brunel University, England and was the first person to be selected for the David Wong Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia.  He published The Locust Hunter in 2004, the story of a young boy who sets with four friends to avenge the killing of his pet, in the turbulence of 1973 Hong Kong. 2006 saw the translation of The Locust Hunter for the German market. He is currently working on his next book, 'a memoir of his late uncle’s dog’.

 

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