After a failed search to find English-language book versions of these stories, she decided to write her own.
Parker-Chan spent nearly a decade working as a diplomat and international development adviser in South-East Asia, where she became addicted to epic East Asian historical TV dramas. A 2017 Tiptree Otherwise Fellow, she is the author of the historical fantasy novel She Who Became the Sun.
Shelley Parker-Chan is an Australian by way of Malaysia and New Zealand. during the Yuan Dynasty in China, when China was under Mongol rule. Shelley Parker-Chan’s debut novel She Who Became the Sun, however, piqued my interest because it’s set in an era I know nothing about, i.e. Back in 2003 I read Lian Hearne’s best-selling medieval Japanese trilogy Tales of the Otori but became bored with it by Book 3. It’s been well over a decade since I read an epic historical fantasy.
