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A conversation with Trillium Prize winner Ann Shin

"I met with North Korean defectors and a human smuggler and went on a three thousand mile journey through China undercover, pretending we were Chinese. It was nerve-racking."

Last month I had a fascinating conversation with the novelist, poet and filmmaker Ann Shin. I first interviewed Shin in 2013, around the time her collection of poetry The Family China was published. For the launch she rented a private room at Toronto’s Soho House, where she got on stage, hauled out a box of china — her actual family heirlooms — then rea…

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