Yan Ge

Yan Ge

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Yan Ge (颜歌) is an award-winning writer from China.

Life and career

Yan Ge, whose real name is Dai Yuexing (戴月行), was born in 1984 in Sichuan, China. She began publishing in 1994. She completed a PhD in comparative literature at Sichuan University and is the Chair of the China Young Writers Association. Her writing is uses a lot of Sichuanese, rather than Standard Chinese (Mandarin). People’s Literature (Renmin Wenxue 人民文学) 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 (华语文学传媒大奖 最佳新人奖). Yan Ge was a guest writer at the Netherlands Crossing Borders festival in The Hague, November 2012, and since then has appeared at numerous literary festivals in Europe. She now lives in Dublin.

Awards

  • 2003 - Chinese Literature Media Award
  • 2002 - 1st prize, New Concept Writing Competition
  • 2001 - Honored as one of China's Top 10 Young Fiction Writers by the Lu Xun Literature School of the China Writers Association

Publications

  • May Queen (2008) - novel
  • Dad is Dead - short story (translated by Nicky Harman)
  • 《钟腻哥》Sissy Zhong - short story (translated by Nicky Harman)
  • 《白马》 White Horse - novella (translated by Nicky Harman)
  • 《照妖镜》 Demon-Reflecting Mirror
  • 《我们家》 [literally, "Our Family"] The Chilli Bean Paste Clan - novel (German and French editions due in 2016, 2017).
  • 《平乐镇伤心故事集》 "Sad Stories of Pingle Township" (5 stories including White Horse and Demon-Reflecting Mirror).
  • A set of short pieces "Grandma and Me", "Yan Ge and Me", "Mum and Me", "The Writer and Me", "Grandma and Me 2" (translated by Philip Hand) 2012