Bio
Photo: Bonnalie Brodeur
DAVID FUNG is a Montreal-born translator and revisor, specializing in the medical and pharmaceutical fields. He holds a BSc in Microbiology and Immunology with a minor in Translation from McGill University, as well as a Graduate Diploma in Translation from Concordia University. Seekers is his first novel.
Literary influences
Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, Italo Calvino.
Some of my favourite books
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Garcia Marquez), Song of Solomon (Morrison), Midnight's Children (Rushdie), Water Music (Boyle), Blindness (Saramago).
Favourite genre
Literary fiction.
Writing method for Seekers
I wrote the first draft by hand (using an HB pencil - a must for me! - and a pile of loose-leaf paper). Apart from many rounds of self-editing, I worked with professional editors at different stages of the self-publishing process (developmental editing, copyediting, and proofreading).
Current read
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
