Invitation to a Banquet with Fuchsia Dunlop, Aube Rey Lescure, and Juli Min

Aube Rey Lescure is a French-Chinese-American writer. Her debut novel, River East, River West, was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins (US) and Duckworth Books (UK) in January 2024 and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024. Her essay At the Bend of the Road was selected for Best American Essays 2022. An excerpt from her forthcoming novel was a semifinalist in the Boston Review’s 2020 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest, and her short fiction was a finalist for BOMB Magazine’s 2021 Fiction Contest, judged by Ottessa Moshfegh. Aube grew up between Provence, northern China, and Shanghai, and graduated from Yale University in 2015. She worked in foreign policy before becoming an itinerant writer. Currently, she works as the Deputy Editor at Off Assignment.

Aube Rey Lescure adalah seorang penulis keturunan Prancis-China-Amerika. Novel debutnya, River East, River West, diterbitkan oleh William Morrow/HarperCollins (AS) dan Duckworth Books (UK) pada Januari 2024 dan masuk dalam daftar pendek Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024. Esainya yang berjudul At the Bend of the Road terpilih sebagai Best American Essays 2022. Cuplikan dari novelnya yang akan segera terbit juga menjadi semifinalis dalam Aura Estrada Short Story Contest tahun 2020 di Boston Review. Tak tertinggal, cerita pendek yang ia tulis menjadi finalis dalam Fiction Contest 2021 oleh Majalah BOMB, dengan Ottessa Moshfegh sebagai juri. Aube dibesarkan di Provence, utara China, dan Shanghai, dan lulus dari Yale University pada tahun 2015. Ia bekerja di bidang kebijakan luar negeri sebelum menjadi seorang penulis. Saat ini, ia bekerja sebagai Deputi Editor di Off Assignment.

Fuchsia Dunlop is a British award-winning food writer and cook specializing in Chinese cuisine. Drawing on 30 years of traveling around China, she uses her experiences to tell the story of the country’s cuisine. Dunlop was the first Westerner to train as a chef at the Sichuan Higher Institute of Cuisine. Her award-winning books include The Food of Sichuan, Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China, Every Grain of Rice, and Land of Fish and Rice, some of which have been published in translation in China. Her most recent book, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food, is an exploration of the history and culture of food in China, with each chapter built around a particular ingredient or dish.

Fuchsia Dunlop adalah seorang penulis kuliner dan koki asal Inggris yang memiliki spesialiasi pada masakan China. Melancong mengelilingi China selama 30 tahun, ia menggunakan pengalamannya untuk menceritakan kuliner dari negara tersebut. Dunlop adalah orang Barat pertama yang mengikuti pelatihan sebagai chef di Sichuan Higher Institute of Cuisine. Buku-bukunya yang memenangkan penghargaan mencakup The Food of Sichuan, Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China, Every Grain of Rice, dan Land of Fish and Rice. Beberapa di antaranya telah diterbitkan dalam terjemahan di China. Buku terbarunya, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food, adalah sebuah eksplorasi sejarah dan budaya makanan di China, dengan setiap bab disusun berdasarkan bahan atau hidangan tertentu.

Juli Min is a Korean-American author residing in Shanghai, the Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine The Shanghai Literary Review, and a lecturer in writing at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. Her novel, Shanghailanders, was released in May 2024 by Spiegel & Grau in the US and by Dialogue Books in the UK. The novel is set to be translated into several languages, including Arabic, German, Japanese, Norwegian, and Spanish. Min earned her MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson College and studied Russian and comparative literature at Harvard University.

Juli Min adalah seorang penulis asal Korea-Amerika yang tinggal di Shanghai, Pemimpin Redaksi majalah sastra The Shanghai Literary Review, dan dosen kepenulisan di Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. Novelnya, Shanghailanders, dirilis pada Mei 2024 oleh Spiegel & Grau di Amerika Serikat dan oleh Dialogue Books di Inggris. Novel ini rencananya akan diterjemahkan ke dalam beberapa bahasa, termasuk Arab, Jerman, Jepang, Norwegia, dan Spanyol. Min meraih gelar Master of Fine Arts (MFA) dalam fiksi dari Warren Wilson College dan mempelajari bahasa Rusia serta sastra komparatif di Harvard University.