Mellissa Fung

Mellissa Fung was born in Hong Kong and moved to Vancouver with her family at the age of four. She worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) for more than three decades, including as a news correspondent. In 2008, while reporting on the Canadian military deployment in Afghanistan, she was abducted and held captive for four weeks. She later discussed the experience in an award-winning interview and explored it in a book and a documentary film. She co-wrote the spy thriller The Last Wake-Up Call with Louise Penny.