About Lydia Kwa
Born 1959. Lydia Kwa is a Canadian psychologist, novelist, poet, writer and physician.
Lydia Kwa (born 1959 in Singapore) is a Canadian writer and psychologist.
First coming to Canada in 1980, but has concentrated primarily on novels since. In addition to her writing, she continues to practice as a clinical therapist in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Works The Colour of Heroines (1994, poetry) This Place Called Absence (2000, novel) The Walking Boy (2005, novel) Pulse (2010, novel) Sinuous (2013, poetry) "The Right Hand" (2017, short story) Oracle Bone (2017, novel) The Walking Boy (2019, novel)--a rewrite of the 2005 novel, now a sequel to Oracle Bone
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