Yu Hua (author)
| Yu Hua ä½™åŽ | |
|---|---|
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Yu Hua at the 2005 Singapore Writers Festival | |
| Born |
April 3, 1960 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China[1] |
| Occupation | Novelist, essayist |
| Language | Chinese |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Alma mater | Lu Xun Literature School |
| Period | 1984 - present |
| Genre | Novel, prose |
| Literary movement | Avant-garde |
| Notable works |
To Live Chronicle of a Blood Merchant Brothers Cries in the Drizzle |
| Notable awards |
5th Zhuang Zhongwen Literary Prize 1992 James Joyce Award 2002 Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 2004 |
| Relatives |
Father: Hua Zizhi (åŽè‡ªæ²») Mother: Yu Peiwen (余佩文) |
Yu Hua (simplified Chinese: ä½™åŽ; traditional Chinese: ä½™è¯; pinyin: Yú Huá) is a Chinese author, born April 3, 1960 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. He practiced dentistry for five years and later turned to fiction writing in 1983 because he didn't like "looking into people’s mouths the whole day."[2] Writing allowed him to be more creative and flexible. He grew up during the Cultural Revolution and many of his stories and novels are marked by this experience. One of the distinctive characteristics of his work is his penchant for detailed descriptions of brutal violence.[3]
Yu Hua has written four novels, six collections of stories, and three collections of essays. His most important novels are Chronicle of a Blood Merchant and To Live. The latter novel was adapted for film by Zhang Yimou. Because the film was banned in China, it instantly made the novel a bestseller and Yu Hua a worldwide celebrity. His novels have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Persian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, Hungarian, Serbian, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean and Malayalam.
Awards
- Grinzane Cavour Prize (1998) for To Live
- James Joyce Award (2002). He was the first Chinese writer to receive this award.[4]
- Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France (2004)[5]
- Barnes & Noble Discovery Great New Writers Award (2004)
- Special Book Award of China (2005)[5]
- Prix Courrier International (2008)[5]
Works
Note: cited works are those translated into English from the original Chinese.
Short story collections
- Yu, Hua; Jones, Andrew F. (trans) (1996). The Past and the Punishments. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN 0-8248-1817-2. OCLC 45727784.
- Leaving Home at Eighteen (Chinese: åå…«å²å‡ºé—¨è¿œè¡Œ; pinyin: ShÃbÄ Suì ChÅ«mén YuÇŽnxÃng)
- Classical Love
- Blood and Plum Blossoms (Chinese: 鮮血梅花; pinyin: XiÄnxuè MéihuÄ)
- World Like Mist: Eight Stories (pinyin: Shi shi ru yan) ISBN 986-7691-37-7
- Yu, Hua; Barr, Allan H. (trans) (2011). China in Ten Words å个è¯æ±‡é‡Œçš„ä¸å›½. New York: Pantheon. ISBN 978-0-307-37935-1. OCLC 701810348.
(simplified Chinese: å个è¯æ±‡é‡Œçš„ä¸å›½; traditional Chinese: å個詞彙裡的ä¸åœ‹; pinyin: Shà Gè CÃhuì LÇ De ZhÅngguó) ISBN 978-986-120-477-2 - Yu, Hua; Barr, Allan H. (trans) (2014). Boy in the twilight: stories of the hidden China 黄æ˜é‡Œçš„ç”·å©. New York: Pantheon. ISBN 978-0-307-37936-8. OCLC 841899112.
(Chinese: 黄æ˜é‡Œçš„ç”·å©; pinyin: HuánghÅ«n lÇ de nánhái)
Novels
- Yu, Hua; Barry, Michael (trans) (2003). To Live æ´»ç€. New York: Anchor Books. ISBN 978-1-400-03186-3. OCLC 51752247.
(Chinese: æ´»ç€; pinyin: Huózhe - Yu, Hua; Jones, Andrew F. (trans) (2003). Chronicle of a Blood Merchant 许三观å–血记. New York: Pantheon. ISBN 978-0-375-42220-1. OCLC 51978096.
(Chinese: 许三观å–血记; pinyin: XÇ” SÄnguÄn Mà i Xuè Jì) - Yu, Hua; Barr, Allan H. (trans) (2003). Cries in the Drizzle 在细雨ä¸å‘¼å–Š. New York: Anchor Books. ISBN 978-0-307-27999-6. OCLC 104878666.
(Chinese: 在细雨ä¸å‘¼å–Š; pinyin: Zaixiyuzhong Huhan) - Yu, Hua; Chow, Eileen Cheng-yin (trans); Rojas, Carlos (trans) (2009). Brothers 兄弟. New York: Pantheon. ISBN 978-0-375-42499-1. OCLC 228701323.
(Chinese: 兄弟; pinyin: XiÅng Dì, 2005–2006) shortlisted at the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize - Yu, Hua; Barr, Allan H. (trans) (2015). Seventh Day 第七天. New York: Pantheon. ISBN 978-0-804-19786-1. OCLC 883747924.
ä½™åŽ (2013). 第七天; Diqitian 第七天 (in Chinese). Beijing: Xin xing chu ban she. ISBN 9787513312103. OCLC 853063206.
Further reading
- Chinese Writers on Writing featuring Yu Hua. Ed. Arthur Sze. (Trinity University Press, 2010).
References
- ↑ Johnson, Ian (11 October 2012). "An Honest Writer Survives in China". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ↑ Yu, Hua (30 August 2003). Interview with Yu Hua. Interview with Michael Standaert. University of Iowa International Writing Program. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
- ↑ Zhao, Yiheng (Summer 1991). "Yu Hua: Fiction as Subversion". World Literature Today 65 (1). Retrieved 15 March 2015.
- ↑ "Yu Hua: Brothers, 2008 Shortlist". Man Asian Literary Prize. 2011. Retrieved 19 June 2009.
- 1 2 3 "Yu Hua". The New York Times. 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
External links
- Yu, Hua (30 August 2003). Interview with Yu Hua. Interview with Michael Standaert. University of Iowa International Writing Program. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
- A conversation with Yu Hua at UCLA
- Profile, nytimes.com
- Yu, Hua (21 February 2014). Stranger Than Fiction: A Q&A with Yu Hua. Interview with Zhang Xiaoran. ChinaFile Culture. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- Yu, Hua (Winter 2003). EAA Interview with Yu Hua, author of To Live (Huo Zhe) (PDF). Interview with Helen Finken. in Education About ASIA 8 (3). Retrieved 12 March 2015.
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