The David T.K. Wong Fellowship
Website: http://www.uea.ac.uk/lit/awards/wong
Email Address: Undisclosed
Editor/Consultant: Undisclosed
Country: Australia
Type: Writers prize
Description: The David T. K. Wong Fellowship is a unique and generous annual award of £26,000 to enable a fiction writer who wants to write in English about the Far East to spend a year in the UK, at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. The Fellowship is named for its sponsor Mr. David Wong, a retired Hong Kong businessman, who has also been a teacher, journalist and senior civil servant, and is a writer of short stories himself. The Fellowship was launched in 1997 and the first Fellow appointed from 1st October 1998. The Fellow joins a community of writers founded by Sir Angus Wilson and Sir Malcolm Bradbury in 1971.
(Directory entry)
Website: http://www.uea.ac.uk/lit/awards/wong
Email Address: Undisclosed
Editor/Consultant: Undisclosed
Country: Australia
Type: Writers prize
Description: The David T. K. Wong Fellowship is a unique and generous annual award of £26,000 to enable a fiction writer who wants to write in English about the Far East to spend a year in the UK, at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. The Fellowship is named for its sponsor Mr. David Wong, a retired Hong Kong businessman, who has also been a teacher, journalist and senior civil servant, and is a writer of short stories himself. The Fellowship was launched in 1997 and the first Fellow appointed from 1st October 1998. The Fellow joins a community of writers founded by Sir Angus Wilson and Sir Malcolm Bradbury in 1971.
(Directory entry)
