FORA.tv Speaker - Nicole Mones

Nicole Mones is an American novelist. As of May 2007, she has published three novels, entitled Lost in Translation, which appeared in 1998 (not connected with the 2002 film of the same title), A Cup of Light (2002) and a third, The Last Chinese Chef, released in May of 2007. Lost in Translation won the 1998 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize awarded by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies and the Department of English at the University of Rochester for best work of fiction by an American woman. Mones' novels have been translated into at least 10 languages. She also contributes articles about Chinese cuisine to Gourmet magazine.