Chinese writer Sun Wei on the benefits of lightening up

A two-month residency has inspired the novelist to write columns about Cork on her return to Shanghai, says Colette Sheridan

HAVING spent two months in Cork last autumn on the Shanghai/Cork literature residency, Sun Wei is writing columns about Cork for Chinese journals and newspapers and in a series of essays for the Shanghai Writer.

A native of Shanghai, the 39-year-old novelist, short-story writer and essayist fell in love with Cork. While her writing about the city is positive and informative, Sun Wei plans to write about “the soul of Cork in my literary work. I have so many wonderful memories. I have been to many places in my life. I have a feeling that Cork is my second home town.”