Writers

Jia Pingwa (āo) (March 16, 1952 -), whose original name was Jia Pingwa, later changed to "Pingwa (āo)" (taking the interpretation of "wa", which means "smooth road"), was born in Danfeng, Shaanxi Province, a contemporary writer in mainland China, a director of the Chinese Writers Association, and the chairman of the Shaanxi Provincial Writers Association. He is currently the Dean of the School of Humanities at Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology. In December 2016, he was elected as the Vice Chairman of the 9th Chinese Writers Association.

Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck (English: Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck, June 26, 1892 - March 6, 1973), also known as Pearl Buck, was an American writer living in China. She was famous for her novel "The Good Earth" (The Good Earth). Earth), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932, and later the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize, and the American writer whose works have been published in the most languages.

Herta Müller (German: Herta Müller; August 17, 1953 -), born in Romania, is a German novelist, poet, essayist, and winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. She is famous for writing about the experiences of German-Romanians in Soviet Russia, starting from memories, dreams and the heart. The Nobel Prize in Literature jury said it "depicts the situation of displaced people with the cohesion of poetry and the frankness of prose."

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, essayist and poet. He was also a representative figure of the American Renaissance. He also served as a sailor and teacher. His most famous work is "Moby-Dick". His work "Typee" attracted considerable attention from the public and became a bestseller. He also quickly achieved literary success in the late 1840s. However, his popularity declined sharply in the mid-1850s and never rose again. When Herman Melville died in 1891, society had all but forgotten his existence. It was not until the "Melville Revival" in the early 20th century that his works gained widespread recognition, especially "Moby-Dick", which was hailed as one of the classics of American and even world literature.

Hermann Karl Hesse (German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈhɛsə]; July 2, 1877 – August 9, 1962) was a German-Swiss dual citizen poet, novelist, and painter. Notable works include "Demian," "Stephen Wolf," "Song of the Wanderer" and "The Glass Bead Game," each of which explores personal pursuits of authenticity, self-awareness, and spirituality. In 1946, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Zhao Haihong, born in 1977 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, is a contemporary Chinese science fiction writer, teacher, and translator. She has won the Galaxy Award several times and is known as the "Princess of Chinese Science Fiction".

Zhao Liping (August 1951 - May 26, 2017), whose pen name is Mr. Chai Mu, was born in Yutian, Hebei Province. He served as director of the Public Security Department of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, vice chairman of the People's Government of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and vice chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. On March 21, 2015, he was detained on suspicion of intentional homicide. According to media inventory, Zhao Liping is the 100th "tiger" announced to be investigated since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. This case is also the first murder case committed by a provincial or ministerial official since the founding of the People's Republic of China. In July 2015, he was expelled from the party for serious violations of discipline and law. On November 11, 2016, Zhao Liping was sentenced to death in the first instance, becoming the first fallen official after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to receive the death penalty without a suspended sentence. He was executed on May 26, 2017. Zhao Liping once served as the chairman of the Inner Mongolia Public Security Literary Federation and published novels, poetry collections, essays, essays, TV scripts and other works. He has won the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region's "Five Ones" Project Book Award and the National "Five Ones" Project Best Book Nomination Award.

Luigi Pirandello (Italian: Luigi Pirandello, June 28, 1867 - December 10, 1936), Italian playwright, novelist, winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature. Pirandello was born in a wealthy family in Sicily. He studied literature at the University of Palermo and the University of Rome, and then went to the University of Bonn in Germany for further study. In 1892, Pirandello returned to his country and settled in Rome. From 1897 to 1922, he taught at the Higher Normal School for Women in Rome. In 1925, he organized and established the "Rome Art Theater" and served as artistic director. From 1926 to 1936, he led the troupe to perform in various countries in Europe and the United States. Pirandello's creations were extremely rich. He wrote more than 300 short stories in his life, which were later collected into the two-volume "Story of a Year" (1937), seven novels, more than 40 screenplays, and seven volumes of poetry. His novels made him famous in the literary world in the early twentieth century. However, the dramatic performance seems to be superior. Pirandello's plays reveal the conflict between man and society, as well as the theme of man's self-conflict, which is thought-provoking. His exploration of dramatic art forms pioneered modernist drama, and he is regarded by many as a master of drama at the beginning of the century, comparable to Chekhov, Strindberg, and Ibsen. As for the writer's overall creative style, Meng Xianzhong believes that Pirandello is an original artist who does not deliberately pursue plot twists and bizarre events, but instead taps into people's inner conflicts.

Rewi Alley (English: Rewi Alley, December 2, 1897 - December 27, 1987), male, was a New Zealand writer, educator, and social activist living in the People's Republic of China.

Lu Yao (December 3, 1949 - November 17, 1992), formerly known as Wang Weiguo, was born in Qingjian, Shaanxi. Writer of the People's Republic of China. He once served as a member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Chairman of the Shaanxi Branch of the Chinese Writers Association.

Sinclair Lewis (English: Sinclair Lewis, February 7, 1885 - January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930 "for his powerful, personal, and moving narrative art, and his talent for creating new styles with wit and humor." He was the first American to win the award. His works profoundly and critically describe American society and capitalist values. His representative works include "The Country of Freedom" (1919), "Main Street" (1920) and "Babbitt" (1922). He was born into a family of rural doctors in Minnesota. After graduating from Yale University in 1908, he first worked as a reporter and later as an editor at two publishing companies in New York. In 1914, he published his first novel "Our Mr. Lane". In 1920, he published the most influential novel "The Street". He spent the next ten years traveling throughout the United States and Europe while creating. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1927 but refused to accept it. In 1930, he became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for his "talent in describing vigor, lifelikeness, and creating new characters with wit and humor." Most of the works show the decadence, corruption, and shameless meanness of business owners. His major works include "Babbitt", "Aros Smith", "Alme Gantry", "Wouldn't Happen Here", "A Dream of Kings and Suns", etc. He later died in Rome, Italy. "Lewis's creative attitude throughout his life was very rigorous. Every time he wrote a book, he carefully summarized his life experiences, interviewed various characters, investigated the town's history on the spot, and read hundreds of books and notes related to the creative theme. Because of this, Lewis's "Main Street" and "Bobbitt" have become encyclopedias of social life in American cities and towns. In addition, Lewis is a master of the art of satire. In each of his novels, Lewis uses dialect, irony, contrast, exaggeration, metaphor, joke, aphorism, vitriol and other techniques to convey the characters' behavior in a natural, appropriate and humorous way, making people unable to help but think deeply." (Meng Xianzhongyu)

Shao Xunmei (June 27, 1906 - May 5, 1968), whose original name was Shao Yunlong, sometimes used the name Haowen. His ancestral home is Yuyao, Zhejiang, and he was born in Shanghai. He was a poet, publisher and translator during the Republic of China. One of the representatives of the "Crescent Sect", a member of the Lion's Roar Society and the China PEN Club. Together with writers Liu Naou and Mu Shiying, he is a representative writer of "urban modernism".

Hao Jingfang (July 27, 1984 -), born in Tianjin, is a contemporary Chinese female science fiction writer.

Winnie Tang Shuk-ming, MH, JP (English: Winnie Tang Shuk-ming) is a Hong Kong information technology professional, columnist, and founder and chairman of Esri China (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.

Jin Jianxiao (December 1910 - August 15, 1936), formerly known as Jin Chengcheng, also known as Mengchen, also known as Mengchen, with pen names Jianxiao, Jianshuo, and Balai, was a Manchu, native of Shenyang, Liaoning, and a writer in the Republic of China.

Jin Yucheng (1952-), formerly known as Jin Shushu, male, originally from Lili, Wujiang, Jiangsu Province, was born in Shanghai, and is a writer in the People's Republic of China. He is currently the executive editor of "Shanghai Literature".

Jin Jishui (1916-1987), Yi Nian, Yi Nian, Ai Xinjue Luo clan, descendant of the Qing royal family, Prince Rui. Literary writer. In his early years, he served as the chief priest of the family memorial ceremony for Prince Rui. Later, he became poor because his uncle's clan Zhongyuan and his father's clan Zhongming squandered the family property. After the death of the clan member Zhongyuan, he was appointed Prince Rui according to the law due to the early death of his father, the clan clan member Zhongming. However, he refused the invitation of Puyi of Manchukuo to ascend the throne and the temptation of Manchukuo and the Japanese army, and insisted on living in Beijing. He has written "Records of Life in the Prince's Mansion", "Si Chess", "Little Taoyuan", and "Such a View of the Pavilion Poems and Poems".

Zhong Yilin, who published works under the pen names Zhong Kun, Zhong Kun and others before going abroad, is an overseas Chinese writer who writes in Chinese and English. His works include novels, movies, scripts, essays and literary criticism. So far, he has written eighteen novels, eight novels and two collections of essays have been published in the country. His representative works include the novels "London Love Story", "Chinatown", "In London", etc.

Chinua Achebe (English: Chinua Achebe, November 16, 1930 - March 21, 2013), whose real name is Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, was a Nigerian novelist, poet and critic. His famous work Things Fall Apart is the most widely read work in African literature. Achebe was born into a Protestant family in Ogidi, an Igbo village in southeastern Nigeria. He excelled academically and received an undergraduate scholarship. While in college he became interested in world religions and African indigenous cultures, and began writing short stories. After graduation, he worked for Radio Nigeria and soon moved to the metropolis of Lagos. He attracted world attention with the publication of "Falling Down" in the late 1950s; he later published the novels "The Troubles" (1960), "Arrow" (1964), "Servant of the People" (1966) and "Anthill in the Wasteland" (1987). Achebe wrote novels in English and publicly supported the use of this colonizer's language in works written by Africans. In 1975, his lecture "Impressions of Africa: Racial Prejudice in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" became the focus of controversy because he criticized Joseph Conrad as a "complete racist". When the Biafra region seceded from Nigeria in 1967, Achebe became a staunch supporter of Biafra's independence and served as a committee member of the new regime. As the war took its toll on civilians, violence and famine continued to spread death, and he sought humanitarian aid from Europeans and Americans. When the Nigerian government reannexed the region in 1970, he joined the ruling party, but soon quit the party, disillusioned with the corruption and discrimination he saw firsthand. He lived in the United States for several years in the 1970s, and returned to the United States after a car accident in Nigeria in 1990 left him partially disabled. Achebe's novels focus on Igbo traditions, the influence of Christianity, and the collision of colonial and postcolonial cultures. He draws from the oral literature of the Igbo tradition, often directly quoting folktales, proverbs and famous sayings. He has also published numerous short stories, children's literature, and essay collections. He served as the Stevenson Professor of Languages ​​and Literature at Bard College on the Hudson River in New York for a long time until his death on March 21, 2013.

Nguyin Dzoãn Cẩm Vân (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Dzoãn Cẩm Vân; 1954-) is a famous Vietnamese cooking expert.

Nguyễn Thị Diệu Thảo (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thị Diệu Thảo; December 30, 1961 -), nicknamed Ms. Myo Cho, is a famous Vietnamese cooking expert, educator and food researcher.

A Yi (1976-), whose real name is Ai Guozhu, is a native of Ruichang, Jiangxi, and is a contemporary Chinese novelist. Formerly a police officer and editor, he now specializes in writing.

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, DBE, also known as Lady Mallowan, whose original surname was Miller, is a British detective novel writer. Mary Westmacott was the pen name she used to write romance novels.

Albert Camus (French: Albert Camus, pronounced: [albɛʁ kamy]; November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960), French novelist, essayist, playwright and journalist; although he has repeatedly denied it, he is often regarded as a philosopher. He was born in French Algeria, and his local experience profoundly affected his thinking and writing. He participated in the French Resistance during World War II and wrote a column for La Combat after liberation. He gradually withdrew from political journalism around 1947 and focused instead on novels, essays, and dramas. Camus is famous for his exploration of the absurdity of life. His representative works include the novels "The Stranger" (1942), "The Plague" (1947) and the philosophical essay "The Myth of Sisyphus" (1942). Public opinion often classifies him as an existentialist because of his association with Jean-Paul Sartre, but he himself is sensitive and is considered to be attached to any ideology. In 1957, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for "an important literary creation that sheds light on the issues of human conscience in our time with a clear and serious attitude."