Guest speaker: Dr. Pinky Lui

Date: Fri., 28 Mar. 2025

Time: 3:30 – 6:00pm

Place: FKH, 3/F., E-Zone, CUHK

This talk introduces the first volume of Anaïs Nin’s Diaries, Henry & June, as a gateway to explore her unique approach to life writing and her endeavour to share women’s experiences from a first-person perspective. Nin started keeping a diary at the age of 11 until early in her 70s, placing her thoughts and experiences on pages that eventually testify to her transformation into an artist. As she began writing and publishing fiction in the early 1930s, she was also investing her artistic ambition into diary writing; for Nin, she is her diary as much as her autobiographical fiction is a part of her. By looking into Nin’s art of truth-telling, this talk will investigate the complexity of feminist writing in the early 20th century, presenting her diaries as a grand yet underestimated narrative that celebrates womanhood in all its intricacies.

All are welcome!