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• Winner of Mao Dun Literature Prize 1982

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Li Guowen was born in 1930 in Shanghai. He was a literary college member at drama school and saw active service in the Korean War, working as a literary editor. In 1957, he was accused of being a 'rightist' for writing the novel Re-Election. Former editor of the periodical Novel, he is now a professional writer and member of the Chinese Writers Association. In 1979, he wrote the novel The Eclipse, which marked his return to the literary world. A prolific writer, since then he has published the novels: Spring in Winter in 1981, which was one of the first batch of novels to win the prestigious Mao Dun Literature Prize awarded by the Chinese Writers Association back in 1982 when the awards were inaugurated; No. 5 Garden Street, which was developed into a widely acclaimed screenplay; and Memoir of a Dangerous House. He has also written several other short and medium-length novels, including The First Cup of Bitterness, Inadvertent Story, Elevator Murder, Nirvana and White World, and has won many awards. He is also the author of The Art of Swearing, Bitter Melon, In Search of Happiness, Gossip, The Beauty of Light, Crossroads and Non-Dream of the Red Chamber - the latter being an essay offering a critical analysis of the time-honoured Chinese classic Dream of the Red Chamber where Li interprets the protagonists and their lives in those times and puts them into a modern-day perspective for today's audience.

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