Chen Zhongshi

Chen Zhongshi was born in 1942, on 3 August, in Baqiao district, in Xi'an, into a peasant family according to the People's Daily. After secondary school, he became a village schoolteacher. He published his first text in 1965 in a Xi'an newspaper, won a prize in 1979 for a short story according to the People's Daily, and became a professional writer in 1982. He chaired the Shaanxi Writers' Association and was vice-president of the China Writers' Association. He received the Mao Dun Prize in 1997 and died in Xi'an on 29 April 2016.

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• Novel藍袍先生Chen Zhongshi · 1986not translated into EnglishLiterature