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Fan Wen

范稳

Born 1962 · China

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Mao Dun 2015 · Nominee

    吾血吾土

    Wu xue wu tu

    Title translated by AI:“My Blood, My Land”

    Fan Wen · 52 when first published

    Novel · War, Historical, Politics

    AI-generated summary:A veteran who left a wartime university to fight the Japanese in Burma is made, in 1951, 1957, 1967, 1975 and 1985, to write confession after confession about the life he led before 1949.

  • No English yet

    Mao Dun 2008 · Nominee

    水乳大地

    Shui ru dadi

    Title translated by AI:“Land of Water and Milk”

    Fan Wen · 42 when first published

    Novel · Historical

    AI-generated summary:Over a century of upheaval on the eastern edge of Tibet, in the canyon of the Lancang River below the sacred Kawagebo peak, peoples, faiths and cultures meet and clash.