Anna Sun is a bilingual writer of fiction. Her first book, The Blue Notebook, a collection of short stories in Chinese, was published in Shanghai in 2001. Her first short story in English, “The Garden,” published in The Harvard Review, came out in the same year.
Sun’s first novel in English, Dreamers of the Absolute: A Book of Hours, was published by Sylph Editions in London in 2014. Randy Rosenthal writes in his review in Tweed’s: Magazine of Literature and Art: “Sun’s writing is clean, spare, and as meditative as her protagonist’s experience at the monastery, and as beautiful as the book itself — Sylph Editions publishes work in which text and images coexist, conceived as one.”
Sun’s literary criticism has appeared in Paideuma and The London Review of Books. Her latest essay was for The Kenyon Review, entitled “The Diseased Language of Mo Yan.”
Sun is also a scholar of religion. Her book Confucianism as a World Religion, published by Princeton University Press in 2013, has received two major book awards. She is now working on a book on Chinese religion as well as a novel about modern China.
