Yu Hua 余华

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Now one of China's best-known novelists, Yu Hua was born in Haiyan, Zhejiang province, in 1960, and grew up in and around a hospital where his parents were both doctors. His education was encompassed almost entirely by the Cultural Revolution, following which he was assigned to a job as a dentist. Five years later he published his first short story in a Beijing literary magazine, and shortly thereafter moved to a job in the provincial level cultural bureau.

Yu Hua was one of the generation of writers who began reconstructing modern Chinese literature in the 1980s, and in the 90s began publishing a series of spare, simple, carefully-drawn novels. His latest novels, Brothers, an ambitious tapestry of two eras of Chinese literature, and The Seventh Day, a dark look at the plight of China’s underclasses represent a departure in style, length and subject matter from his previous work.

Yu Hua is the recipient of numerous international awards and honors, including the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour and Giuseppe Acerbi prizes, and the French Prix Courrier International. In 2004 he was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

News about Yu Hua, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

 

Read Now: Around the Web

Four Fates in a Changing China tr. Allan Barr LARB China Channel
Victory tr. Allan Barr The New Yorker

Book Publications

Cries in the Drizzle cover

Cries in the Drizzle

| Allan Barr

October 09, 2007

Original Works

Short story (23)

Novel (7)

Essay (1)

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