Zhang Wei ( zh, t=張煒, s=张炜, p=Zhāng Wěi; born 7 November 1956) is a Chinese author. He was born in

Longkou Longkou (), formerly Huang County (), is a port city in northeastern Shandong province, China, facing the Bohai Sea to the north and the Laizhou Bay to the west. Longkou, a county-level city, is administered by the prefecture-level city of Yant ...

Yantai Yantai, formerly known as Chefoo, is a coastal prefecture-level city on the Shandong Peninsula in northeastern Shandong province of the People's Republic of China. Lying on the southern coast of the Bohai Strait, Yantai borders Qingdao ...

, which is located in the north of the

Shandong Peninsula The Shandong Peninsula or Jiaodong (tsiaotung) Peninsula is a peninsula in Shandong in eastern China, between the Bohai Sea to the north and the Yellow Sea to the south. The latter name refers to the east and Jiaozhou. Geography The waters ...

. He graduated from the Chinese Department at Yantai Normal College in 1980. Three years later, he became a member of

China Writers Association The China Writers Association (CWA) is a subordinate people's organization of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (CFLAC). Founded in July 1949, the organization was initially named the China National Literature Workers Association. ...

, an organization for which he has served as chairman and deputy chairman of the Shandong branch. He is best known for his novels '' The Ancient Ship'' and '' September's Fable''. In 2011 Zhang won the

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 ...

, the highest national literary award, for ''On the Plateau'', a 10-volume work that took a decade to write.

Works

*'' The Ancient Ship'' 《古船》(1987) *''September's Fable'' 《九月寓言》(2007) *''Seven Kinds of Mushrooms'' 《蘑菇七种》 (2009) *''On the Plateau'' 《你在高原》(2011) *''Songs from the Forest''《刺猬歌》(2020)

Children's books

(The English titles are approximate) *''Life on the Peninsula'' 《半岛哈里哈气》(2012) *''The Young Boy and the Sea'' 《少年与海》(2017) *''Looking for the King of Fish'' 《寻找鱼王》

References

External links

September's Fable

Zhang Wei on Paper Republic
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