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Sheng Keyi is the author of several novels and short stories. Northern Girls, the first of her full form works to be published in English, was long-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize. Death Fugue is her latest novel to be translated into English. She currently resides in Beijing, China.
There's something very forceful and full-bodied about the language. It's very physical . . . She's got a subtlety about what it means to be a woman, that others lack. --Eric Abrahamsen, translator, publishing consultant, co-founder, paper-republic.org Sheng adopts an unusually intimate approach and writes through, and about, women's bodies. --Didi Kirsten Tatlow, columnist With a sense of humor reminiscent of Chinese writer Zhu Wen, and the kind of cruelty seen in author Yu Hua's novel To Live. --Jiang Yuxia, Global Times
