Xu Zechen (; born in 1978 in

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, Jiangsu) is a Chinese author of literary fiction. He currently works as an editor at '' People's Literature Magazine''. In 2009 he was a writer in residence at

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and in 2010 he attended the

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at the

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Awards

* 2019 - Awarded the 10th

Mao Dun Literature Prize The Mao Dun Literature Prize () is an award for novels, established in the will of prominent Chinese writer Mao Dun (for which he personally donated 250,000 RMB) and sponsored by the China Writers Association. Awarded every four years, it is ...

for "Northward" * 2016 - Awarded the 1st Cross-Strait Young Writers Prize for "Jerusalem" * 2015 - Nominated for the 9th

for "Jerusalem" * 2014 - Awarded the

Lao She Literary Award The Lao She Literary Award (''Lao She wenxue jiang'' 老舍文学奖) is named after the Chinese novelist Lao She, a writer and activist of 20th-century Chinese literature. The award is awarded to a Beijing writer every two to three years, recognisi ...

for "Jerusalem" * 2014 - Awarded the Short Story Award of the 7th

Lu Xun Literary Prize The Lu Xun Literary Prize (or Lu Xun Literature Prize) 鲁迅文学奖 is a literary prize awarded by China Writers Association. It is one of China's top four literary prizes and is named after Lu Xun and has been awarded every three years sinc ...

for ''If A Snowstorm Seals the Door''

Works

Representative works include the following (translated titles are approximate):

Novels and Novellas

*《耶路撒冷》 (Jerusalem) *《跑步穿过中关村》 ''Running Through Beijing'' (tr. by

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) *《午夜之门》 (Midnight's Door) *《夜火车》(Night Train) *《天上人间》(Heaven on Earth) *《北上》(Northward) *《苍声》''Voice Change'' (tr. by

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) *《啊，北京》 *《西夏》(Western Xia/Tangut) *《人间烟火》 *《逆时针》 *《居延》(Juyan) *《小城市》(Small Town)

Short stories

*《花街》(Flower street) *《最后一个猎人》(The last hunter) *《伞兵与卖油郎》(The parachuter and the oil seller) *《纸马》(Paper horses) *《我们的老海》(Our old sea) *《这些年我一直在路上》(I've been on the road a few years) *《如果大雪封门》 ''If a Snowstorm Seals the Door'' (tr. by

Jeremy Tiang Jeremy Tiang (born 17 January 1977) is a Singaporean writer, translator and playwright based in New York City. Tiang won the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize for English fiction for his debut novel, ''State of Emergency'', published in 2017. Car ...

) *《时间简史》 ''A Brief History of Time'' (tr. by

] *《露天电影》 ''Outdoor Film'' (tr. by

] *《轮子是圆的》 ''Wheels are round'' (tr. by

] *《雪夜访戴》 ''Visiting Dai on a Snowy Evening'' (tr. by

] *《狗叫了一天》 ''The Dog's Been Barking All Day, July 2017'' (tr. by

] *《奔马》 ''Galloping Horses'' (tr. by

Helen Wang Helen Kay Wang (; ; born 1965) is an English sinologist and translator. She works as curator of East Asian Money at the British Museum in London. She has also published a number of literary translations from Chinese, including an award-winning t ...

) *《弃婴》 ''Throwing Out the Baby'' (tr. by

Nicky Harman Nicky Harman is a UK-based literary translator, working from Chinese to English and focussing on contemporary fiction, literary non-fiction, and occasionally poetry, by a wide variety of authors. When not translating, she spends time promoting ...

) *《镜与刀》 (Mirror and Knife) *《九年》 (Nine Years) *《忆秦娥》 ''Remembering Qin E'' (tr. by

)

External links

* X
Zechen profile on Paper Republic

Xu Zechen profile on Words Without Borders

Xu Zechen profile on MCLC

Xu Zechen profile on mychinesebooks

References

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