Jerome Greene Hall, Room 104
Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society; Center for Translation Studies at Barnard College; East Asian Languages and Cultures Department at Columbia University; C.V. Starr East Asian Library; Columbia Law School Center for Contemporary Critical Thought; Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Literary Translation at Columbia, Columbia School of the Arts; and Columbia University Press.
Hosts: Lydia H. Liu, ICLS Director and Wun Tsun Tam, Professor in the Humanities, EALAC
Respondent: Eugenia Lean, WEAI Director, and Associate Professor of Chinese History, EALAC
About the Speaker
Shanghai-based novelist Wang Anyi has published twelve novels including The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (Columbia University Press), The Age of Enlightenment, Heavenly Fragrance, and Anonymous. She is the winner of many prestigious literary prizes, including China’s National Short Story Prize, the National Novella Prize, the Mao Dun Prize, the Lu Xun Prize, “The Writer of the Year” of the Chinese Literary Media, the Xiao Hong Prize, the Shi Nai’an Prize, Malaysia’s Huazong International Chinese-language Literary Prize, Taiwan’s “Good Book” Prize of China Times, Korea’s Yi Pyong-ju International Literary Prize, and the Dream of the Red Chamber Prize offered in Hong Kong.
Her work was nominated in 2011 for the Man Booker International Prize. Her writings have been translated into English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Russian, Serbian, Japanese, Israeli, Korean, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Thai, and Polish. She is a professor at Fudan University.
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