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Yan Lianke was born in 1958 in Henan Province, China. Text has published his novels Serve the People!, Lenin's Kisses, Dream of Ding Village, The Four Books, The Explosion Chronicles and The Years, Months, Days. Yan Lianke won the Hua Zhong World Chinese Literature Prize in 2013. He has also won two of China's most prestigious literary awards- the Lu Xan Prize and the Lao She Award. In 2014, he won the Franz Kafka Prize. He lives in Bejing. Carlos Rojas is Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies and Women's Studies at Duke University. He has translated Yan Lianke's four most recent novels.
`This exuberant but sinister fable confirms its author as one of China's most audacious and enigmatic novelists.' * Economist * `A powerful, captivating work of art.' * South China Morning Post * `Yan Lianke well deserves to be in the Pantheon of great writers. He has no equal at attacking societal issues or the great Maoist myths in order to turn them into novels so breathtakingly powerful, shot through with black, often desperate, humor.' * Le Monde Diplomatique * `A master of imaginative satire. His work is animated by an affectionate loyalty to his peasant origins in the poverty-stricken province of Henan, and fierce anger over the political abuses of the regime.' * Guardian * Yan Lianke is one of the best contemporary Chinese writers.' * Independent * `This exuberant but sinister fable confirms its author as one of China's most audacious and enigmatic novelists.' * Economist * `I can think of few better novelists than Yan, with his superlative gifts for storytelling and penetrating eye for truth' * New York Times Book Review *
