with Josephine Chia
Posted in With the Writers on 02/02/2010 10:40 am by athena_aziz
Josephine Chia
Josephine Chia writes both fiction and non-fiction and has published seven books. Her first literary break was when she was one of the winners of UK’s Ian St. James Awards in 1992 for her short story, Tropical Fever, which was subsequently published in an anthology by Harper Collins. Since then, Josephine has won several other literary prizes and is a member of UK’s Society of Authors and UK Society of Women Writers & Journalists. She lives in West Sussex, England.
Find out more at www.josephinechia.com
Take a peek at Phine’s library and what she’s reading now.
What are you currently reading? I generally read a fiction and Non-fiction in the same period depending on my mood.
Current Fiction: David Lodge: A Deaf Sentence
Non-fiction: Bill Bryson: Shakespeare
How many books do you currently own? 1,000 books!! They are falling off my shelves and I am slowly getting rid of them.
Have you read them all? Yes! Some of them more than once.
What’s unique about your own library? Besides fiction, I read philosophy books, yoga and spiritual. Many of the books are also used for my teaching the respective subjects, Creative Writing, Yoga & Teaching English as a Second Language.
In the event of a fire (touch wood), what is/ are the book(s) that you will save? My Collins Millennium Dictionary & The Dalai Lama Book of Daily Meditations.
Josephine's library
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