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The Writers Gauntlet: Sadie Kaye vs Emma Pei Yin

The Writer’s Gauntlet returns with witty historical fiction novelist Emma Pei Yin. Her debut novel, When Sleeping Women Wake, won the 2026 Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction and was shortlisted for the ACT Literary Award for Fiction. It was also longlisted for the 2026 ARA Historical Novel Prize. I met Emma at a Hong Kong literary festival event last year, where we teamed up for a literary quiz, put our heads together, and managed to come up with not a single correct answer between us, which is actually a lot trickier than it sounds….

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