Amanda Lee Koe
Amanda Lee Koe | |
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Koe in New York, 2019 | |
| Born | 1987 or 1988 (age 36–37) Singapore |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
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| Chinese name | |
| Chinese | 李婉婷 |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Lǐ Wǎntíng |
| Teochew Peng'im | Li2 Uêng2deng5 |
Amanda Lee Koe (born c. 1988) is a Singapore-born, New York-based novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her debut novel, Delayed Rays of a Star (2019), which was named one of NPR's Best Books of 2019, and for being the youngest winner of the Singapore Literature Prize. Her fiction writing is known for its evocative, grounded style covering topics related to capitalism, sexuality, ethnicity, and contemporariness.