18 Facts About Wang Anyi

Wang Anyi was born on 6 March 1954 and is a Chinese writer, vice-chair of the China Writers Association since 2006, and professor in Chinese Literature at Fudan University since 2004.

Wang Anyi regularly writes about the countryside in Anhui, where she was "sent down" during the Cultural Revolution.

Wang Anyi's works have been translated into English, German and French, and studied as zhiqing, xungen, Haipai, and dushi literature.

Wang Anyi was born in Nanjing in 1954, but moved to Shanghai with her mother when she was a year old.

Wang Anyi read a large number of foreign works, Including Turgenev, Tolstoy, Gorky, Pushkin, Tazma and other writers classic works.

Wang Anyi had hoped to enter a university as a Worker-Peasant-Soldier student but without a recommendation, her dream was not realized.

Wang Anyi was permitted to return to Shanghai in 1978 and worked as an editor of the literature magazine Childhood.

In 1980 Wang Anyi became a professional writer, and that year received training from the China Writers Association at the Lu Xun Literary Institute.

In Lapse of Time, Wang Anyi shifted from emotional intensity in her previous work to the mundane day-to-day lives.

However, in a 1988 interview, Wang Anyi stated her "purpose and theme" have been consistently about man and love.

The novel made Wang Anyi's writing reached its peak, and won the most prestigious Mao Dun Literary Prize in 2000 in China.

In 1996 Wang Anyi co-wrote the period film Temptress Moon with director Chen Kaige and Shu Kei.

Wang Anyi has been a professor at Fudan University since 2000s.

Wang Anyi's world is a gallery of humans, in which you encounter China, the world, and the river of life that is enduring and sublime, yielding yet constantly invigorated.

Wang Anyi is often recognized as a feminist writer, although she does not self-identify as a feminist.

Wang Anyi's mother, Ru Zhijuan, is a novelist while her father, Wang Anyi Xiaopin, is a playwright and director.

Wang Anyi has an elder sister, Wang Annuo, who is a former editor of a literary magazine and a younger brother, Wang Anwei, who does Literary and Art research.

Wang Anyi is married to Li Zhang who is an editor of Shanghai Music Publishing House.