Lee LaiLee Lai (born 1993)[1] is a transgender,[2] Asian-Australian cartoonist who presently lives in Canada. In 2021, the National Book Foundation named her an honoree of their 5 Under 35 award for her debut graphic novel, Stone Fruit.[1] The following year, Stone Fruit won the Lambda Literary Award for Graphic Novel/Comics,[3][4] and was a finalist for the Barbara Gittings Literature Award[5] and Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics.[6] BiographyLai was born in 1993 in Melbourne[1] and has a sister, with whom she is close.[7] She presently lives in Montreal.[1] Lai became interested in comics because of mild dyslexia, which made reading traditional novels difficult.[2] Her short story comics have been published in The New Yorker, The Lifted Brow, Room Magazine, and Everyday Feminism.[1] Lai is transgender[2] and homosexual.[7] Awards and honours
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