Wang Wen-hsing

Wang Wen-hsing was born in 1939 in Fuzhou, in Fujian, and arrived in Taiwan in 1946, at Donggang, before settling in Taipei. A student in the department of foreign languages of National Taiwan University, he founded with his fellow students the review Modern Literature, then obtained a master's degree at the University of Iowa. He taught at National Taiwan University from 1965 until his retirement in 2005, writing with a slowness that became famous, and received the National Award for Arts in 2009. He died in 2023.

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• NovelFamily Catastrophe家變Wang Wen-hsing · 1973Literature