Sue Cheung (born Cheung Ying Yee), formerly known as Sue Pickford, is a novelist. She is best known for her first novel Chinglish.^[1]

Cheung was born in Nottingham, England, to parents who had emigrated from Hong Kong in the 1960s.^[2] They ran a Chinese restaurant in Nottingham, and when she was nine started running a butchers shop in Hull. They then moved to Coventry, where the family lived in a Chinese takeaway for most of her teen years.^[3] Despite her parents coming from Hong Kong, she has never been to Hong Kong, in part due to her parents’ working schedule.^[4]

At the age of 16, she won a scholarship at the London College of Fashion to study to become an artist. She subsequently worked in advertising as an Art Director before switching to freelance design.^[5]

Her first novel for teenagers, Chinglish, is based on her experiences growing up in the takeaway in Coventry.^[6] It won several prizes, including the 2019 Guardian’s Best Books list, the ‘Simply the Book’ category at the Coventry Inspiration Book Awards, and the Young Adult category the Diverse Book Awards.^[3]

• Cheung, Sue (2019). Chinglish. London: Anderson Press. ISBN 9781783448395

• Pickford, Sue (2019). Chill with Lil. Sherborne: Ragged Bears Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781857144710
• Pickford, Sue (2015). When Angus Met Alvin. London: Frances Lincoln Children's Books. ISBN 9781847805249
• Pickford, Sue (2015). Far from Home. North brook, IL: Pearson Scott Foresman. ISBN 9780328832736
• Pickford, Sue (2014). Bob and Rob. London: Frances Lincoln Children's Books. ISBN 9781847803436

• Official website