Ge Fei (author)

Liu Yong
Native name 刘勇
Born 1964 (age 5152)
Dantu District, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu
Pen name Ge Fei (格非)
Occupation Novelist
Language Chinese
Nationality Chinese
Alma mater East China Normal University
Period 1986 - present
Genre Novel
Literary movement Xianfeng Literature
Notable awards 9th Mao Dun Literature Prize
2015 Jiangnan Trilogy

Ge Fei (Chinese: 格非; pinyin: Gé Fēi; Wade–Giles: Ke Fei, born 1964), pen-name for Liu Yong (刘勇), is a notable contemporary Chinese author whose works were prominent during the late 1980s and early 1990s.[1] Ge Fei was considered one of the preeminent experimental writers during that period. He is currently a professor of literature at Tsinghua University.

Biography

Ge Fei was born in Dantu, Jiangsu, in 1964. He graduated from East China Normal University in 1985. He received his PhD in 2000.[2] He was invited to participate in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, USA, in 2009.

Work

His most prominent work is the novel 人面桃花, Renmian Taohua (Peach Blossom Beauty) (2004), which explores the concept of utopia, and is laden with many classical allusions. It is the first book of his Jiangnan Trilogy. The second book, 山河入梦 Shanhe Rumeng (My Dream of the Mountain and River), was published in 2007. The third is 春尽江南,Spring Ends in Jiangnan, published in 2011.[3]

The title of Renmian Taohua is taken from a classical work, and has also been used by the director Du Haibin for his documentary on a gay club in Chengdu (2005); the English name for the film is Beautiful Men but this is not a direct translation.

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