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About Celeste Ng
American writer and novelist
Celeste Ng is an American writer and novelist. She is known for her fiction, which includes short stories published in literary journals and novels that have drawn wide attention. 106 quotes on the site. Her first novel, Everything I Never Told You, appeared in 2014 and won Amazon Book of the Year, along with strong critical praise. Her short story "Girls at Play" won a Pushcart Prize in 2012 and an Alex Award in 2015. She later published Little Fires Everywhere in 2017, followed by the television miniseries in 2020, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020, and released Our Missing Hearts in 2022.
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