•CONTINUED SUCCESS: Between Yale University Press, New Directions, and Open Letter, Can Xue has been published consistently for over twenty years, cultivating a rabid fan base.
•NOBEL ASPIRATIONS: Always near the top of the betting odds list, 2024 may well be her year as a counterbalance to 2023's winner, Jon Fosse.
•OTHER AWARDS: Winner of the Best Translated Book Award in 2015 for The Last Lover, and finalist for the 2015 Neustadt Prize.
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978-1-960385-53-6 (9781960385536)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Can Xue is the pseudonym of celebrated experimental writer Deng Xiaohua, born in 1953 in the city of Changsha. She is the author of
Vertical Motion,
Frontier,
Barefoot Doctor, and
Five Spice Street, among other books.
Karen Gernant is a professor emerita of Chinese history.
Chen Zeping was a professor emeritus of Chinese linguistics.