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Jiang Rong a Chinese Author From Jiangsu
By David Rehem on November 13th, 2007
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Loading ...Jiang Rong a Chinese author beat four other selected Asian writers to win the Man Asian Literary Prize for his best-selling novel “The Wolf Totem. These four writers are Xu Xi of Hong Kong, Jose Dalisay Jr. of the Philippines, Indian author Reeti Gadekar, and Nu Nu Yi Inwa from Myanmar. Jiang, born in Jiangsu in 1946, spent 11 years living with nomadic communities in the Chinese border grassland region. Jiang said “I spent 30 years thinking, and six years writing, ‘Wolf Totem.’ During that process, I hoped to write a story that would appeal to the Chinese sensibility.” Wolf Totem by Jiang was first published in Chinese, it is a story about the struggle of life during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution and draws on Jiang’s personal experience in the Mongolian grasslands. The English edition of this book will be published in the next year, probably in March.
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