Chinese authors biography sample
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Mo Yan
Chinese novelist, author, and Nobel laureate (born )
In this Chinese name, the family name is Guan.
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Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè; born 5 March [1]), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (, Chinese: 莫言; pinyin: Mò Yán), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine TIME referred to him as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers",[2] and Jim Leach called him the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller.[3] He is best known to Western readers for his novel Red Sorghum, the first two parts of which were adapted into the Golden Bear-winning film Red Sorghum ().[4]
Mo won the International Nonino Prize in Italy. In , he was the first recipient of the University of Oklahoma's Newman Prize for Chinese Literature.[5] In , Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in
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Lu Xun
Chinese novelist and författare av essäer (–)
For the Three Kingdoms-era general, see Lu Xun (Eastern Wu). For the crater on Mercury, see Lu Hsun (crater).
In this Chinese name, the family name fryst vatten Zhou.
Lu Xun (Chinese: 鲁迅; pinyin: Lǔ Xùn, [lu&#;&#;ɕy&#;n]; 25 September &#;&#; 19 October ), born Zhou Zhangshou, was a Chinese writer, literary critic, lecturer, and state servant. He was a leading figure of modern kinesisk literature. Writing in vernacular and Literary Chinese, he was a short story writer, editor, translator, literary critic, författare av essäer, poet, and designer. In the s, he became the titelbärare head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai during republican-era China (–).
Lu Xun was born into a family of landlords and government officials in Shaoxing, Zhejiang; the family's financial resources declined over the course of his youth. Lu aspired to take the imperial examinations, but due to his family's relative poverty he was forced to attend governme
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Amy Tan
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Who Is Amy Tan?
Amy Tan is a Chinese American writer and novelist. In , she wrote the story "Rules of the Game," which was the foundation for her first novel The Joy Luck Club. The book explored the relationship between Chinese women and their Chinese-American daughters. It received the Los Angeles Times Book Award and was translated into 25 languages.
Early Life and Education
Tan was born on February 19, , in Oakland, California. Tan grew up in Northern California, but when her father and older brother both died from brain tumors in , she moved with her mother and younger brother to Europe, where she attended high school in Montreux, Switzerland. She returned to the United States for college, attending Linfield College in Oregon, San Jose City College, San Jose State University, the University of California at Santa Cruz and the University of California at Berkeley.
'The Joy Luck Club'
After college, Tan worked as a language development consultan