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Professor Leung Ping-Kwan, invited by Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, will introduce his latest work “Postcolonial Affairs of Food and the Heart”, which is a collection of stories about life in Hong Kong after 1997. Prof. Leung is the chair professor in comparative literature at Lingnan University. He has published a novel, collections of stories, poems as well as criticism on urban culture and literary studies. He was awarded The Hong Kong Urban Council’s Biennial Award for Literature in 1991 and 1997.
He also had his poetry and photograph exhibitions “Food and the City” and “East West Matters” in Hong Kong, Frankfurt and Bern. The talk will be presented in Cantonese.

Admission is free.

也斯，原名梁秉鈞，現為香港嶺南大學比較文學講座教授。其作品甚豐，著有詩歌、小說、散文及評論。其小說集《布拉格的明信片》與詩集《半途》曾分別獲第一屆與第四屆中文文學雙年獎。散文新作《也斯的香港》，曾在香港及德國舉行攝影展覽。也斯將過去十一年中寫成的十二個互相牽連的小説最近集結成《後殖民食物與愛情》一書出版，以飲食滋味、男歡女愛敍述回歸十年的香港故事。
也斯訪加，應利銘澤典宬之邀，將用粵語介紹新作並分享其寫作經歷。

活動免費。