Author · China
Wang Shuo
Wang Shuo was born in Nanjing on 23 August 1958 and grew up in Beijing in a barracks; during the Cultural Revolution, his parents were sent to the countryside. He served four years in the navy, then went into trade before making a living from his pen. In the mid-1980s, he became the leading figure of what came to be called hooligan literature. He then worked for television, notably with Feng Xiaogang in 1992, and returned to writing in 2007.