Awards & Winners

Han Suyin

Date of Birth 12-September-1917
Place of Birth Xinyang
(China, Henan)
Nationality China, United Kingdom
Also know as Elizabeth Kuanghu Chou, Suyin Han
Profession Novelist, Writer, Author, Physician
Han Suyin was the pen name of Elizabeth Comber, born Rosalie Matilda Kuanghu Chou. She was a China-born Eurasian, a physician, and author of books in English and French on modern China, novels set in East and Southeast Asia, and autobiographical memoirs which covered the span of modern China. These writings gained her a reputation as an ardent and articulate supporter of the Chinese Communist revolution. She lived in Lausanne until her death.

Awards by Han Suyin

Check all the awards nominated and won by Han Suyin.

1953


Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Honored for : A Many-Splendoured Thing