Yan Ge (,

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: ''Yán Gē'', born 1984) is the pen name of Chinese writer Dai Yuexing (,

: ''Dài Yuèxíng'').

Life and career

Yan Ge was born Dai Yuexing in December 1984 in the Pixian district of

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. She began writing at the age of ten and her first book was published when she was 17 years old. Yan completed a

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Sichuan University Sichuan University (SCU) is a national key public research university in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. The university is wholly funded by the Ministry of Education. SCU is one of the top universities of China, and a Class A Double First Class Univer ...

and is the Chair of the China Young Writers Association. Her writing includes substantial amounts of her native

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, rather than

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. ''People’s Literature'' (''Renmin Wenxue'' ) magazine recently chose her – in a list reminiscent of The New Yorker's ‘20 under 40’ – as one of China's twenty future literary masters. In 2012 she was chosen as Best New Writer by the prestigious Chinese Literature Media Prize (). In 2011, she was awarded a visiting scholar position at Duke University. Yan was a guest writer at the Crossing Border Festival in

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in November 2012, and has since appeared at numerous literary festivals throughout Europe. She has lived in Dublin with her husband, Daniel, and their child since 2015. , Yan has been writing in English in addition to Mandarin and Sichuanese. Her debut English fiction, a short story collection, will be published in 2023.

Awards

* 2003 - Chinese Literature Media Award * 2002 - 1st prize,

New Concept Writing Competition The New Concept Writing Competition (新概念作文大赛) is a Chinese literary competition for young writers, who may submit work up to a maximum of 5000 Chinese characters. Many of the winners have gone on to have successful writing careers. ' ...

* 2001 - Honored as one of China's Top 10 Young Fiction Writers by the

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Literature School of the

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Publications

* ''May Queen'' (2008) - novel * ''Sissy Zhong'' - short story (translated by Nicky Harman) * ''White Horse'' - novella (translated by Nicky Harman) * ''Demon-Reflecting Mirror''- novella * "Sad Stories of Pingle Township" (5 stories including ''White Horse'' and ''Demon-Reflecting Mirror''). * "Our Family", 2013. **English translation: ''The Chilli Bean Paste Clan'', translated by Nicky Harman, Balestier Press, 2018; also German and French editions. * "Record of Strange Beasts", 2006. **English translation: '' Strange Beasts of China'', translated by Jeremy Tiang, Melville House Publishing, 2021.

References

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