Ying Chen

Ying Chen (; born February 20, 1961) is a Chinese Canadian author. She writes primarily in French and has translated a few of her own works into Chinese and English. Her 1995 book L'ingratitude received a Prix Québec-Paris. to an engineer father. She grew up during the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, finishing secondary school just two years after entrance exams were reinstated in 1977. ), and L'ingratitude. L'ingratitude won the Prix Québec-Paris in 1995 and was translated into English by Carol Volk through Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1998. Chen also translated it into Chinese and it was released under the name in 2002. It has since been translated into Italian, English, Spanish, and Serbian.

She self-translated Le champ dans la mer (2002) into Chinese as (2016) and Querelle d'un squelette avec son double (2003) into English as Skeleton and its double (2016). Other books include Le Mangeur (2006), Espèces (2010), and La Rive est loin (2012). She also has two books of essays, Quatre mille marches: un rêve chinois (2004) and has published poetry in French and Mandarin.