Zhang Wei (; born 7 November 1956) is a Chinese author. He was born in
Longkou
Longkou (), formerly Huang County (), is a port city in northeastern Shandong province, China, facing the Bohai Sea to the north and the Laizhou Bay to the west. Longkou, a county-level city, is administered by the prefecture-level city of Yant ...
,
Yantai
Yantai, formerly known as Chefoo, is a coastal prefecture-level city on the Shandong Peninsula in northeastern Shandong province of People's Republic of China. Lying on the southern coast of the Bohai Strait, Yantai borders Qingdao on the ...
, which is located in the north of the
Shandong Peninsula
The Shandong (Shantung) Peninsula or Jiaodong (Chiaotung) Peninsula is a peninsula in Shandong Province in eastern China, between the Bohai Sea to the north and the Yellow Sea to the south. The latter name refers to the east and Jiaozhou.
Geo ...
. He graduated from the Chinese Department at Yantai Normal College in 1980. Three years later, he became a member of
China 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 Liter ...
, an organization for which he has served as chairman and deputy chairman of the Shandong branch. He is best known for his novels ''
The Ancient Ship
''The Ancient Ship'' () is a Chinese novel by Zhang Wei, first published in 1987. The novel spans four decades of Chinese history beginning with the creation of the People's Republic in 1949, then difficult periods of land reform, as well as fam ...
'' and ''
September's Fable''. In 2011 Zhang won the
Mao Dun Literature Prize, the highest national literary award, for ''On the Plateau'', a 10-volume work that took a decade to write.
Works
*''
The Ancient Ship
''The Ancient Ship'' () is a Chinese novel by Zhang Wei, first published in 1987. The novel spans four decades of Chinese history beginning with the creation of the People's Republic in 1949, then difficult periods of land reform, as well as fam ...
'' 《古船》(1987)
*''September's Fable'' 《九月寓言》(2007)
*''Seven Kinds of Mushrooms'' 《蘑菇七种》 (2009)
*''On the Plateau'' 《你在高原》(2011)
*''Songs from the Forest''《刺猬歌》(2020)
Children's books
(The English titles are approximate)
*''Life on the Peninsula'' 《半岛哈里哈气》(2012)
*''The Young Boy and the Sea'' 《少年与海》(2017)
*''Looking for the King of Fish'' 《寻找鱼王》
References
External links
September's FableZhang Wei on Paper Republic
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Living people
1956 births
Writers from Yantai
People from Longkou
Mao Dun Literature Prize laureates
Chinese male novelists
People's Republic of China novelists
Chinese children's writers