Patty Chang least visible she has ever been in her own work” in her 2005 exhibition "Shangri-La" based on a fictional location in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by James Hilton. Her recent work, especially "Invocation for The Wandering Lake" (2015–16), draws connections between landscape and the body. Patty Chang Patty Chang (born February 3,1972 in San Leandro, CA) is an American performance artist and film director living and working in Los Angeles, CA. Chang was originally trained as a painter and received her Bachelor of Arts at the University of California, San Diego. It wasn't until she moved to New York
What Was Lost Was Lost" was the winner in the first novel category of the Costa Book Awards. O'Flynn received a £5,000 prize. It was short-listed for the overall Costa Book of the Year Award. The Costa Book Awards' judging panel, chaired by Joanna Trollope, praised the novel for "blending humour and pathos in a cleverly constructed and absorbing mystery." They described the novel as inventive, compelling, and poignant. "What Was Lost" was long-listed for the 2007 Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction. It was short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award. It won the Jelf Group First Novel Award