Huang Beijia (; born 1955) is a Chinese writer of fiction for adults and younger readers.
Biography
Huang Beijia was born in 1955, in
Rugao
Rugao () is a county-level city under the administration of Nantong, Jiangsu province, China, located in the Yangtze River Delta on the northern (left) bank of the river.
History
In 411, the western part of then Hailing ( Taizhou) was separated f ...
,
Jiangsu
Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, Postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an Eastern China, eastern coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China. It is o ...
Province, China. She started writing in 1972 and her first works were published in 1973, focusing on the lives and emotions of intellectuals, at university and in society. Many of her earlier works feature female students, navigating emotional relationships, and attitudes towards Chinese masculinity. Representative works include ''Carnival Every Night'', ''Midnight Cocktail'' and ''Century Romance.'' She has subsequently become a renowned author for children and younger readers, and was China's nominated author for the 2020
Hans Christian Andersen Award
The Hans Christian Andersen Awards are two literary awards given by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), recognising one living author and one living illustrator for their "lasting contribution to children's literature". Th ...
.
Huang graduated from the Chinese Literature department,
Peking University
Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education.
Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter ...
. She holds a post of Foreign Affairs Office of Jiangsu Province. She is also Director and Vice-chairman of the Writers Association of Jiangsu Province. She has been a member of the
Chinese Writers Association
China Writers Association or Chinese Writers Association (CWA, ) is a subordinate people's organization of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (CFLAC). Founded in July 1949, the organization was initially named the China National Lit ...
since 1984.
See also
* Shi, Jinyu, “After 40, Memory Is Still Engraved on My Heart”, translated by Jesse Field. ''Chinese Arts and Letter''s 1, 2 (2014): 75-88.
* Xiao, Hua and Wang Zheng, “One Fabulous Family: On the Novels of Huang Beijia", translated by Jesse Field. ''Chinese Arts and Letters'' 1, 2 (2014): 55-74.
* Li Meng, "Intellectual men and women in the 1980s fiction of Huang Beijia 黄蓓佳", ''East Asian History'' 41 (2017). http://www.eastasianhistory.org/41/li-meng
References
External links
Huang Beijia on Chinese-shortstories.comHuang Beijia, author of the month, Leeds Centre for News Chinese Writing, Dec 2019
''Today I am the Flag Raiser'' reading
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1955 births
Living people
Writers from Nantong
Chinese dramatists and playwrights
Chinese women novelists
Chinese children's writers
Chinese women children's writers
People's Republic of China novelists