Wang Anyi

Wang Anyi is a novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer. She is the author of over a hundred short stories, forty novelettes, ten novels, and various essays and prose pieces. Her most famous work is The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, which was adapted for screen, television and stage. She has won numerous awards including the Mao Dun Literature Award in 2000, and her novel Baotown has been nominated for the Los Angeles Times’ Book of the Year, and the 2011 Man Booker International Prize. She lives in Shanghai and is currently chair of the Writers’ Association of Shanghai, and professor of Chinese literature and creative writing at Fudan University.