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Wei-ger Tong

Author of short stories, novels, essays and plays. His books, with a slight touch of magical realism, bring to life family stories, forgotten places, local customs and beliefs, past and present traumas. He graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages at the National Taiwan University and has M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Theatre Studies at the Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA). He first gained attention with his short stories Já, V úkrytu, Stín and Můj dědeček. In 2010 he won the first place in The Taiwan Literature Awards in the novel category for his book Summer Downpour and in 2024 the United Daily Award for Summer Downpour and Labordova náhodná čísla. In 2016, Summer Downpour was selected by the international online portal for Chinese-language literature as one of the 30 best novels from 2001 to 2015.
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 Wei-ger Tong