The New York Times bestselling author, Chloe Gong, is one of the most exciting voices in Fantasy novels and she takes inspiration from Shakespeare. Her ‘Secret Shanghai’ series was a YA Fantasy retelling of Romeo and Juliet and she has just adapted Antony & Cleopatra for her Adult Fantasy trilogy, ‘Flesh and False Gods’. In Gong’s hands, Shakespeare’s women characters have become forces to reckon with.
On 17 November 2023, our very own Sarah Olive led a conversation with NYT bestselling author Chloe Gong. Sarah has been reading her work since 2020 (These Violent Delights was a big book she discovered during the pandemic). She teaches her work now and has written on the joyous multilingualism in her books for Jeunesse.
The event was a collaboration between the British Shakespeare Association and the Women & Shakespeare Podcast which has featured both Gong and Olive as guests.