Zen Cho delivers the 2025 Tolkien Lecture

Mon May 19 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm UTC+01:00

Pichette Auditorium | Oxford

Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature
Publisher/HostTolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature
Zen Cho delivers the 2025 Tolkien Lecture
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Acclaimed fantasy author Zen Cho will deliver this year’s J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford.
About this Event

The lecture will take place on Monday, 19th May at 6PM BST in the Pichette Auditorium at Pembroke College, Oxford.

Zen Cho was born and raised in Malaysia, and lives in the UK. She writes fantasy and romance. Her titles include the Sorcerer to the Crown historical fantasy novels and Malaysian contemporary fantasy Black Water Sister, as well as the Lambda Award-nominated novella The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, and a short story collection, Spirits Abroad. Her newest novels, The Friend Zone Experiment and Behind Frenemy Lines, are contemporary romances set among London’s East and Southeast Asian community.

Zen is a winner of the Hugo, Crawford and British Fantasy Awards and the LA Times Ray Bradbury Prize, as well as a finalist for the World Fantasy, Ignyte, Locus, Astounding, Kitschies and Diverse Book Awards. Her short fiction has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Chinese and Japanese. She has spoken at literary festivals and conventions, taught creative writing and appeared on radio, and was once a model in a campaign for a global luxury make-up brand, chosen specifically for her accomplishments rather than her looks.

When she isn’t writing, Zen works as a lawyer. She enjoys cooking and baking, reading, gossip and travel.

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Pichette Auditorium, Pembroke College, Oxford, United Kingdom

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