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Wang Meng

王蒙

Born 1934 · China

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Mao Dun 2015 · Winner

    这边风景

    Zhebian fengjing

    Title translated by AI:“The Scenery Here”

    Wang Meng · 79 when first published

    Novel · Politics, Historical

    AI-generated summary:In a farming commune in the Ili region of Xinjiang, the theft of the commune's grain opens a slowly unfolding mystery that reaches into the lives of the Uyghur and Han villagers who live side by side.

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    Mao Dun 2008 · Nominee

    青狐

    Qing hu

    Title translated by AI:“Green Fox”

    Wang Meng · 70 when first published

    Novel · Love, Politics

    AI-generated summary:The woman writer Lu Qiangu lives through love and disappointment while her talent and passion sit uneasily with the role history hands her, in a literary world of the 1980s and 1990s torn between repression and licence.