Calvin Choi

Calvin Choi Wai-chun (; born ), also known by his pen name Fatmoonba , is a Hong Kong writer, film critic, and radio host. He currently writes columns for am730 and Hong Kong Economic Times, and is a co-host of Commercial Radio Hong Kong's 903 Open Box.

Early life and education Choi was born in 1974 or 1975, He developed a passion for wuxia novels at a young age and aspired to be a comic book artist, but abandoned that dream after scoring an F in visual arts on his Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination. and won first prize in the in 1996 with his novella Teenager. After graduating from matriculation in 1994 with an A in Chinese literature, he continued his studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, majoring in history.

Career In June 1997, right after graduating from university, Choi joined a newspaper as a supplement journalist. Over the following years, he worked for a total of eight media outlets, including am730, U Magazine, Jet Magazine, , and Apple Daily, primarily focusing on films. He wrote a wuxia novel and initially planned to publish it in 2011, but the project was ultimately scrapped.

In 2015, Choi published his first novel, No Longer Hero, In September 2018, he took a hiatus to work on a book about lyricist Richard Lam.