Wong Bik-Wan

Wong Bik-wan (Cantonese pronunciation) or Huang Biyun (Mandarin pronunciation, ; born 1961) is a Hong Kong writer. She has received multiple literary awards in Hong Kong, and is cited in "The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature" as a major contemporary writer.
Early life.
Wong was born into a Hong Kong Hakka family. She did part of her high school in Taiwan.
Education and early career.
Wong graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with a BA majoring in journalism and communication in 1984. She then worked as a screenwriter for TVB for a year. In 1987, she studied French and French literature at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. In 1988, she travelled to New York to work at a Chinese-language press in New York. She then received her MA degree in criminology under the Department of Sociology in the University of Hong Kong. Meanwhile, she also obtained a Diploma of Legal Studies in the HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education. Apart from her work as a fiction writer, she has worked as a reporter for "The Standard", as a legislative assistant, and as a screenwriter for a broadcasting company.
Writing style.
Although her use of words and style often change with time, she still sticks to common themes like death, diseases, love and darkness. Some touch upon the year 1997 when Hong Kong was handed over to the People's Republic of China.