Sheung-King is the pen name of Aaron Tang,Brett Josef Grubisic, "In “You Are Eating An Orange. You Are Naked.” the 2010s have never looked so 1770s". MyKawartha, November 22, 2020. a Canadian writer whose novel Batshit Seven was the winner of the 2024 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize."Sheung-King, Martha Baillie among Writers' Trust literary prize winners". CBC Books, November 19, 2017.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Tang lived in both Canada and Hong Kong before moving to Toronto, Ontario.Michelle Cyca, "Book review: Tracing a terminated relationship’s lingering, intimate moments". Vancouver Sun, December 22, 2020. His first novel, You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked, was published in 2020 by Book*hug,Thea Lim, "The Interior Lives of the Transnational Asian Diaspora". The Nation, January 20, 2021. and was a shortlisted nominee for the 2021 Amazon.ca First Novel AwardVicky Qiao, "Five Little Indians by Michelle Good wins $60K Amazon First Novel Award". CBC Books, May 28, 2021. and the 2021 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction."Ivan Coyote, David A. Robertson & Julie Flett among finalists for $25K Governor General's Literary Awards". CBC Books, October 14, 2021.
Batshit Seven, his second novel, was published in 2024 by Penguin Random House.
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