Chinese authors biography sample
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Lu Xun
Chinese novelist and essayist (–)
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 is 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 Chinese literature. Writing in vernacular and Literary Chinese, he was a short story writer, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, poet, and designer. In the s, he became the titular 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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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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Short Bio:
Andrea Wang is an acclaimed author of children’s books. Her book Watercress was awarded the Caldecott Medal, a Newbery Honor, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, a New England Book Award, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor. Her other books, The Many Meanings of Meilan,Magic Ramen, and The Nian Monster, have also received awards and starred reviews. Her work explores culture, creative thinking, and identity. She is also the author of sju nonfiction titles for the library and school marknad. Andrea holds an M.S. in Environmental Science and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing for Young People. She lives in Colorado with her family.
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