Author · China
Zong Pu
Feng Zhongpu, who writes under the name Zong Pu, was born in Beijing on 26 July 1928; she is the daughter of the philosopher Feng Youlan. A graduate of the foreign languages department of Tsinghua in 1951, she worked on literary journals. Having returned to literature after the Cultural Revolution, she received in 1978 the national short story prize. She devoted more than thirty years to a cycle of novels in four volumes, completed in 2018, the second of which won the Mao Dun Prize in 2005; according to Chinawriter, her failing eyesight forced her to dictate her last books.