Sun Li (; 16 October 1949 - 9 May 2010) was a

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novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...

. He was a member of the

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. He was a recipient of one of the most prestigious literature prizes in China, the

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Biography

Sun was born in

Guangxi Guangxi (; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the People's Republic ...

in 1949, with his

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Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, an ...

. His birth name was Sun Shengli (). Sun worked in Inner Mongolia Production and Construction Corps in 1969. Sun graduated from

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in 1974. He started to publish novels in 1984. Sun died in

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in 2010.

Works

Novels

* ''Rhapsody of Metropolis'' () (co-author: Yu Xiaohui) ** English translation: ''Metropolis'' translated by David Kwan. Beijing: Panda Books, 1992. * ''Wishing We Last Forever'' () (co-author: Yu Xiaohui)

Awards

* ''Rhapsody of Metropolis'' - 3rd

(1991)

Personal life

Sun married

Yu Xiaohui Yu Xiaohui (; born 1949) is a Chinese novelist. Yu is a member of the Chinese Communist Party and China Writers Association. She shared the Mao Dun Literature Prize with her husband Sun Li in 1991. Biography Yu was born in Shanghai in 1949. She ...

, who is also a famous novelist, they collaborated on the novel, ''Rhapsody of Metropolis''.

References

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