Picador signs Hua Hsu’s ‘beautiful’ Pulitzer-prize winning memoir

Picador has signed Stay True, the “deeply moving” Pulitzer-prize winning memoir from Hua Hsu. 

Editor-in-chief Ravi Mirchandani acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, including audio, from Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein on behalf of Chris Parris-Lamb at the Gernert Company. Rights have also been sold in Catalan (Navona), Spanish (Navona), Italy (NR Edizioni), Korea (RH Korea), Germany (aki Verlag / Kampa) Relógio De Água in Portugal and Akker Publishing for Complex Chinese in Taiwan. The memoir will be published as a paperback original on 14th September 2023 in the UK, simultaneously with paperback publication in the US. 

Hua Hsu is a staff writer at the New Yorker, a professor of literature at Bard College and serves on the executive board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. His memoir Stay True is a “gripping and moving” tale of friendship, grief, the search for self and the solace that be found through art. 

Mirchandani commented: “We all at Picador are delighted to be publishing Hua Hsu’s deeply moving and beautifully written memoir. Whether he is writing about music, loss or the pleasures and pains of being young, of his relationship with his father in Taiwan or his late Japanese-American friend Ken, Hua’s writing, as has been so widely recognised in the US, is pitch-perfect and emotionally true from first page to last.” 

Hua Hsu added: “I’m properly chuffed to be working with Ravi and humbled to join such a brilliant list at Picador.”