Chinese authors biography sample
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Short Bio:
Andrea Wang is an acclaimed author of children’s books. Her book Watercress was awarded the Caldecott Medal, a Newbery Honor, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, a New England Book Award, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor. Her other books, The Many Meanings of Meilan,Magic Ramen, and The Nian Monster, have also received awards and starred reviews. Her work explores culture, creative thinking, and identity. She is also the author of seven nonfiction titles for the library and school market. Andrea holds an M.S. in Environmental Science and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing for Young People. She lives in Colorado with her family.
Long Bio:
I was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in I think my love of mythical creatures came from playing with the Chinese lions in front of the Yenching Library at Harvard University, where my father was a professor. I take photos of all the sculptures of mythical creatures I see, wherever I go.
When I was two, my famil
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Mo Yan
Chinese novelist, author, and Nobel laureate (born )
In this Chinese name, the family name is Guan.
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Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè; born 5 March [1]), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (, Chinese: 莫言; pinyin: Mò Yán), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine TIME referred to him as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers",[2] and Jim Leach called him the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller.[3] He is best known to Western readers for his novel Red Sorghum, the first two parts of which were adapted into the Golden Bear-winning film Red Sorghum ().[4]
Mo won the International Nonino Prize in Italy. In , he was the first recipient of the University of Oklahoma's Newman Prize for Chinese Literature.[5] In , Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in
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Amy Tan
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Who fryst vatten Amy Tan?
Amy Tan fryst vatten a kinesisk American writer and novelist. In , she wrote the story "Rules of the Game," which was the foundation for her first novel The Joy Luck Club. The book explored the relationship between Chinese women and their Chinese-American daughters. It received the Los Angeles Times Book Award and was translated into 25 languages.
Early Life and Education
Tan was born on February 19, , in Oakland, California. Tan grew up in Northern California, but when her father and older brother both died from brain tumors in , she moved with her mother and younger brother to europe, where she attended high school in Montreux, Switzerland. She returned to the United States for college, attending Linfield College in Oregon, San Jose City College, San Jose State University, the University of California at Santa Cruz and the University of California at Berkeley.
'The Joy Luck Club'
After college, Tan worked as a language development consultan