Hon Lai Chu 韓麗珠 is a Hong Kong author of several novels, including Empty Face 《空臉》, Body-sewing 《縫身》, as well as The Border of Centrifugation《離心帶》. She won the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature for fiction with her anthology of short stories Silent Creature in 2004. Her 2006 novel Kite Family, first published as a novella, won the New Writer's Novella first prize from Taiwan's Unitas Literary Association; the extended version was one of the 2008's Books of the Year by China Times in Taiwan. Kite Family, and her latest work, Grey Flower, were selected as Top 10 Chinese Novels World-wide for the year 2008 and 2009 respectively. [Fiction]