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雪漠 Chen Kaihong 陈开红

MCLC / baidu / Chinese Short Stories
The pen name of Chen Kaihong 陈开红, born 1963 Gansu province. A fervent, practising Buddhist. Short story published in the Guardian newspaper, April 2012, translated by Nicky Harman. A very good introduction to his work can be found here This excellent website is in French (handy hint if you don't read French - run the page through Google translate).