In Conversation with Jade Y. Chen: The writer, dramatist and director

Speaker's Biography

Jade Yu-Hui Chen (陳玉慧) is a well-known Taiwanese theatre director and playwright, the author of the best-selling novel The Personals (徵婚啟事), which has been adapted for both prevalent stage and screen. As an influential writer in Taiwan, her work Mazu’s Bodyguard (海神家族) has won many international prizes and been published in different languages.

She is also a famous Taiwanese international journalist who has served as a European correspondent of United Daily News (聯合報) for over a decade since the 1990s. She was awarded the Distinguished Journalist Awards by Taiwan’s National Press Council.