Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Born1980 (age 4445)
Singapore
OccupationWriter, poet, translator, editor, harpist, musician
LanguageEnglish, French, Chinese
NationalityFrench
EducationColumbia University (B.A.)
New York University (M.A.)
Paris-Sorbonne University (Ph.D., French)
École Normale de Musique de Paris
GenreFiction, Poetry, Music
SpousePhilippe Lorrain
Website
fionasze.com

Fiona Sze-Lorrain (born 1980) is a writer, poet, literary translator, editor, and musician. She writes in English and translates from Chinese and French. Her fiction, poetry, and translations have received recognition, shortlisted and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Best Translated Book Award, and the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, among others. She has performed widely as a zheng harpist. Alongside her literary and artistic work, she is involved in negotiation, mediation, and conflict resolution. She is a judge for the 2025 International Dublin Literary Award.