With Dorothy Tse, she co-authored the 2012 short story collection A Dictionary of Two Cities, which won the Hong Kong Book Prize in 2013. In 2004, she was awarded the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature (Fiction) for her short story collection Silent Creature. Her 2006 novel Kite Family, first published as a novella, won the New Writer’s Novella first prize from Taiwan’s Unitas Literary Association; the extended version was selected as one of 2008’s Books of the Year by the China Times in Taiwan. Kite Family, as well as her latest work, Grey Flower, were named to the list of the Top 10 Chinese Novels Worldwide for the years 2008 and 2009, respectively. Andrea Lingenfelter’s English translation of Hon Lai Chu’s The Kite Family was published in 2015.