Renee Liang Explained

Renee Liang
Birth Name:Renee Wen-Wei Liang
Birth Place:New Zealand
Occupation:Writer

Renee Wen-Wei Liang (born 1973) is a New Zealand paediatrician, poet, essayist, short story writer, playwright, librettist, theatre producer and medical researcher. She has been the recipient of several awards for her services to arts, science and medicine and is also noted for her services to the Chinese New Zealand community. She lives in Auckland.

Biography

Liang was born in 1973.[1] She is a second generation Chinese New Zealander[2] [3] and has two younger sisters, Rhea (a surgeon) and Roseanne (a filmmaker).[4]

She attended St Cuthbert's College[5] and graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery in 1996, a Master of Creative Writing in 2007 and a Postgraduate Diploma of Arts (Theatre) in 2009. She also holds a specialist qualification as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.[6]

She has toured eight plays to festivals and venues nationally. Her poetry and short stories have been published in both New Zealand and overseas journals and websites such as New Zealand Listener, JAAM, Blackmail Press, Tongue in your Ear, Sidestream and Magazine.[7] [8] [9] Liang's play The Bone Feeder was commissioned as an opera through Carla Van Zon, and performed as an opera on 23 March 2017 at the Auckland Arts Festival.[10] [11] [12] Her Interactive digital narrative work Golden Threads was created in partnership with illustrator Allan Xia as part of Auckland Museum's 2017 exhibition "Being Chinese in Aotearoa: A photographic journey".[13] [14]

She has also run many community writing workshops, including a programme for migrant women called New Kiwi Women Write Their Stories, and from these has produced a number of anthologies of migrant women’s writing. The Kitchen is a writing workshop based around sharing stories in local neighbourhoods.[15]

As a paediatrician, she has a special interest in child health and adolescent health and leads the Asian Advisory Group for the longitudinal project Growing Up In New Zealand.[16]

Liang lives in Auckland.

Honours and awards

Liang's play The Quiet Room was shortlisted for the Adam NZ Play Award in 2014; it also won the teen section of Playmarket’s Plays for the Young in 2014 and the NZ Writers Guild SWANZ (Script Writer Awards New Zealand) Award for Best Play in 2016. Under the Same Moon was a finalist in the SWANZ Best Play Awards in 2015.[17] Golden Threads won the Play by Play Award for Diversity in 2017.[18]

In 2010, Liang was the recipient of the Sir Peter Blake Emerging Leader Award for her achievements in arts, science and medicine. In 2012, she won the non-fiction category of the Royal Society Manhire Prize in Science Writing for Creative Non-Fiction with her piece Epigenetics: navigating our inner seas.[19] [20]

She received the NZ Chinese Society (Auckland Branch) Senior Achievement award in 2012 and won the Arts and Culture category of the NEXT Woman of the Year Awards in 2018.[21]

She was a recipient of the D’Arcy Writers Grant in 2018[22] and her resulting essay, A Kete Half Empty, was published in North & South in January 2020.[23] [24]

In the 2018 New Year Honours, Liang was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the arts.

Published works

Poetry
Plays, operas and musicals
Digital
Non-fiction
As editor

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: June 2019. Liang, Renee. 15 August 2020. Read NZ Te Pou Muramura.
  2. Web site: Renee Liang. 15 August 2020. Playmarket.
  3. Web site: Dr Renee Liang. 15 August 2020. New Zealand Asian Leaders.
  4. Web site: 26 July 2017. Screen Sisters: Renee Liang and Roseanne Liang in Conversation. 15 August 2020. The Pantograph Punch.
  5. Web site: Liang. Renee. 10 May 2009. Making Their Mark. St Cuthbert's College.
  6. Web site: Dr Renee Liang, 2010 Sir Peter Blake Emerging Leader Award Recipient. 15 August 2020. The Governor General.
  7. Web site: Dr Renee Liang, of Auckland, MNZM, for services to the arts. 15 August 2020. The Governor General.
  8. Web site: Liang. Renee. 10 May 2019. The Friday Poem: Contents of a mummy Tardis handbag by Renee Liang. 15 August 2020. The Spinoff.
  9. Web site: March 2012. About Renee Liang. 15 August 2020. New Kiwi Women Write Their Stories.
  10. Web site: Wilson. Simon. 2017-04-16. The last dance of Carla van Zon. 2021-06-06. The Spinoff.
  11. Web site: The Bone Feeder. 15 August 2020. SOUNZ.
  12. Web site: Hooper. Michael. 24 March 2017. Moving libretto, genius musical amalgam. 15 August 2020. Theatreview.
  13. Web site: 华夏人与长白云故乡 Being Chinese in Aotearoa: A photographic journey. 15 August 2020. Auckland War Memorial Museum.
  14. Web site: Golden Threads 黄金线索. 15 August 2020. Allan Xia.
  15. Web site: The Kitchen. 15 August 2020. Arts Whau.
  16. Web site: Theme Leads: Dr Renee Liang: Asian. 15 August 2020. Growing Up in New Zealand.
  17. Web site: SWANZ Awards. 15 August 2020. NZ Writers Guild.
  18. Web site: 2017 Winners. 15 August 2020. NZ Games Festival.
  19. Web site: 22 November 2012. Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing Announced. 15 August 2020. Scoop.
  20. Web site: 22 November 2012. Creative Science Writing Prize. 15 August 2020. The Big Idea.
  21. Web site: Wylie. Liz. 16 October 2018. Whanganui's Kotuku Foundation founder Merenia Donne named in Woman of the Year awards. 15 August 2020. NZ herald.
  22. Web site: 20 December 2017. Winners of the 2018 D'Arcy Writers' Grants – Renee Liang and Mary Paul. 15 August 2020. NZSA The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa PEN NZ Inc.
  23. Web site: Liang. Renee. 15 January 2020. A Kete Half Empty: Why poverty in New Zealand is everyone's concern. 15 August 2020. Write Up North.
  24. Web site: Liang. Renee. 15 January 2020. A Kete Half Empty: Why poverty in New Zealand is everyone's concern. 15 August 2020. Noted: North and South.
  25. Web site: 9 March 2017. Good to be here, Dargaville! Playwrights Jamie McCaskill, Renee Liang and Jess Sayer on Process. 15 August 2020. The Pantograph Punch.
  26. Web site: Sofija's Garden. 15 August 2020. Going West Writers Festival.
  27. Web site: Botur. Michael. Michael Botur. 3 May 2019. Northland doctor Renee Liang launches new book 'When We Remember To Breathe'. 15 August 2020. Write Up North.

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