Shelley Parker-Chan
Shelley Parker-Chan is an Australian by way of Malaysia and New Zealand. A 2017 Tiptree Fellow, she is the author of the historical fantasy novel She Who Became the Sun. Parker-Chan spent nearly a decade working as a diplomat and international development adviser in Southeast Asia, where she became addicted to epic East Asian historical TV dramas. After a failed search to find English-language book versions of these stories, she decided to write her own. Parker-Chan currently lives in Melbourne, Australia, where she is very grateful to never have to travel by leaky boat ever again. She won the Astounding Award for Best New Writer in 2022.
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She Who Became the Sun
- By: Shelley Parker-Chan
- Narrator: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 14 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: July 20, 2021
- Language: English
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Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker-Chan’s She Who Became the Sun, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new... Read more
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