Authors
Eric Abrahamsen
Eric Abrahamsen is the founder of the literary translation organization Paper Republic.
Eric Abrahamsen has lived in Beijing since 2001, when he studied Chinese at the Central University for Nationalities. He began his literary translations of Wang Xiaobo at an early date and kept at it through the intervening years while working as a teacher, editor and freelance journalist. He founded the literary translation organization Paper Republic in 2007. He is the recipient of a PEN translation grant for Wang Xiaobo’s My Spiritual Homeland and a NEA grant for Xu Zechen’s Running Through Zhongguancun. Eric is currently translating Wang Xiaofang’s Notes of a Civil Servant.
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Carol Birch
Carol Birch is the British author of 2011 Man Booker Prize shortlisted Jamrach's Menagerie.
Carol Birch is a British writer. She made her literary debut with Life in the Palace, which won the David Higham Award for Best First Novel of the Year. Ten novels followed, including Fog Line, winner of the 1991 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and Turn Again Home, which was longlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize. Her latest offering, Jamrach’s Menagerie, the fantastical tale of a Victorian slum urchin’s adventures on the high seas, was shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize. She lives in Lancashire.
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Alan Bissett
Scottish novelist and playwright Alan Bissett is the author of four novels: Boyracers, The Incredible Adam Spark, Death Of A Ladies’ Man and most recently, Pack Men, a sequel to Boyracers.
Scottish novelist and playwright Alan Bissett is known for his use of Scots dialects and pop culture. He is the author of four novels: Boyracers, The Incredible Adam Spark, Death Of A Ladies’ Man and most recently, Pack Men, a sequel to Boyracers. He is also the author of the play The Ching Room and of the “one woman” show The Moira Monologues (first performed as Times When I Bite). He is currently working on the film and TV adaptations of several of his novels and plays.
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Tania Branigan
Tania Branigan is the China correspondent for The Guardian.
Tania Branigan is the China correspondent for The Guardian. Since taking over the position in 2008, Branigan has covered stories ranging from the Sichuan earthquake to the opening of the flagship Barbie store.
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David Broughton
Born in Leeds, David Thomas Broughton is a self-taught folk singer, guitarist and illustrator.
Born in Leeds, David Thomas Broughton is a self-taught folk singer, guitarist and illustrator. He has a degree in Environmental Science and has worked as a conservation officer. Broughton’s musical style combines improvisation and the use of unconventional instruments, including radios, televisions and natural field recordings. His discography includes the albums The Complete Guide to Insufficiency and It's in There Somewhere, as well as the EPs Anchovies and Boating Disasters. His latest album is Outbreeding. He lives in Pyongyang.
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Peter Brown
Peter Brown writes and illustrates children’s books.
Peter Brown writes and illustrates children’s books. After graduating with a B.F.A. in Illustration from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, Brown moved to Brooklyn and spent several years painting backgrounds for animated TV shows. In 2003, he wrote and illustrated his first picture book Flight of the Dodo. His books have been adapted into plays and animated short films and translated into a dozen languages. His New York Times bestseller The Curious Garden won the 2010 E.B. White award and the Children’s Choice Award. His other books include Children Make Terrible Pets and You Will Be My Friend!
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JC Burke
JC Burke is the author of the Young Adult novel Pig Boy.
Sydney-born JC Burke trained as a nurse at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. In 2000, Burke took a creative writing correspondence course while recovering from glandular fever. Her first novel White Lies was a Children’s Book Council of Australia notable book for 2003. Subsequent novels include the 2006 CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers The Story of Tom Brennan and Ocean Pearl. Her latest is Pig Boy. Burke lives on Sydney’s Northern Beaches with her husband and two teenage children.
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Jonathan Campbell
Jonathan Campbell is the author of Red Rock: the Long, Strange March of Chinese Rock & Roll.
After graduating from the University of Washington with a Masters in International Relations, Jonathan Campbell moved to Beijing to study Chinese. Within weeks he began his descent into the local rock world, first as drummer in several bands and later as chronicler, booster, promoter and agent. His first book is Red Rock: the Long, Strange March of Chinese Rock & Roll. Campbell now lives in Toronto with his wife and dog.
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Lillian Chou
Lillian Chou is the food editor for Time Out Beijing.
Lillian Chou is the food editor for Time Out Beijing. Chou came to China to study language and traditional food while traveling throughout Asia. Chou was a food editor with Gourmet magazine and has a previous life in professional restaurant kitchens. She’s been known to stop in different countries for a good meal and is a freelance writer and occasional photographer and recipe developer for: The Beijing City LUXE Guide, Fodor’s, The Art of Eating, Afar, Food and Wine, Saveur and Condé Nast Traveler.
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Tim Clare
Tim Clare is an English poet, author and musician.
Tim Clare is an English poet, author and musician. He presented the BBC Channel 4 series How To Get A Book Deal and wrote a memoir We Can’t All Be Astronauts. As a stand-up poet, Clare performs both as a solo act and as a member of the poetry collective Aisle16. After appearing at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe Festival with his debut solo show, Death Drive, Clare returned in 2011 with How To Be A Leader, an ambitious exploration of the subject that managed to include both Margaret Thatcher and enchanted headgear.
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Ana Clavel
Part of Mexico's "new literary pack," Ana Clavel is the author of the novels Shipwrecked Body and Desire and Its Shadow.
Part of Mexico's "new literary pack," Ana Clavel is the author of the novels Shipwrecked Body and Desire and Its Shadow, which was a finalist for the Premio Internacional Alfaguara de Novela, and the short story collections Paraásos trémulos, Amorosos de atar, and Fuera de escena. In 2004, Clavel was awarded a silver medal by the Société Académique Arts-Sciences-Lettres in France and in 2005 she received the Prix Juan Rulfo for her novella Las violetas son flores del deseo. She graduated with a degree in Humanities at the Autonomous University of Mexico and served as the artistic director of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores del Fonca from 2001 to 2004. Her latest novel is El dibujante de sombras. She lives in Mexico City.
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Nathaniel Davis
Nathaniel Davis is the founder of Split Works.
Nathaniel Davis has lived in China for over 13 years, is fluent in Mandarin and has been working on live music events both large and small in China for the duration. A China veteran, he stumbled into the music industry in 2001 via organizing a series of benefit concerts for UNICEF. He booked his first Grammy Award winning artist, k.d. lang, in 2002 in Shanghai. Split Works is the second company in China he’s co-founded.
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Di An
Di An is the author of the bestselling novels City of the Dragon I and II (西决)
Di An was born in 1983 in Taiyuan, Shanxi province. A graduate of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, Di has been published in Harvest Magazine and People’s Literature. She is the author of the bestselling novels City of the Dragon I and II (西决). City of the Dragon I won the most promising newcomer award at the Chinese Literature Media award. Di also edits the bimonthly magazine ZUI Found.
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María Dueñas
María Dueñas is the author of The Time in Between.
After almost two decades as a professor at the University of Murcia, María Dueñas turned her hand to fiction. Her debut novel The Time in Between, a historical epic set amidst the turmoil of World War II and the Spanish Civil War, was a bestseller in Spain and is being translated into 20 languages. Dueñas is currently writing her second novel. Brought to you by the Cervantes Institute of Beijing.
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Gady Epstein
Gady Epstein is a China correspondent for The Economist.
Gady Epstein, Beijing bureau chief for Forbes since 2007, joined The Economist in July 2011 as China correspondent. He has been covering China and Asia since 2002, first as Beijing bureau chief for The Baltimore Sun, where he wrote on the rich-poor divide, leadership politics, human rights, SARS, Taiwan and North Korea, and won a national award for a 2006 series on globalization. In 2006-7, he completed a Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan. A native of Palo Alto, California, he graduated from Harvard.
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Fan Wen
Fan Wen is the author of 水乳大地 (Harmonious Land).
Born in 1962, Sichuan native Fan Wen (范稳) graduated from Southwest Normal University with a degree in Chinese. Fan is best known for his 2004 novel 水乳大地 (Harmonious Land), the opening volume of his trilogy about the interaction between western missionaries, Han officials and ethnic minorities along the Yunnan-Tibet border. Harmonious Land was nominated for the 2008 Mao Dun Literature Prize and is being translated into French. His latest novel 大地雅歌 (Canticle to the Land), the last in the trilogy, was published in 2010.
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Jonathan Fenby
Jonathan Fenby is a British journalist and the author of Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China today, how it got there and where it is heading.
Jonathan Fenby is a British journalist. The former editor of the Observer newspaper and the South China Morning Post, he is the author of ten books of non-fiction and history including, Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, named one of the best books of the year by the Economist and the Financial Times. His most recent book is Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China today, how it got there and where it is heading. He is a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) and a Chevalier of the French Order of Merit.
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Tim Flannery
Tim Flannery is an Australian explorer, author, conservationist and scientist.
Tim Flannery is an Australian explorer, author, conservationist and scientist with more than 30 new species to his name (including two kinds of tree kangaroos). Named Australian of the Year in 2007, Flannery is a professor at Sydney’s Macquarie University and the co-founder of the Copenhagen Climate Council, a coalition of community, business, and political leaders working to stop and reverse climate change. He is the author of We are the Weather Makers and Here on Earth. Brought to you by the Australian Embassy of Beijing’s Australian Writers’ Week.
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Paul French
Paul French is the author of Midnight in Peking.
Paul French studied history, economics and Mandarin in London and has an M. Phil. in economics from the University of Glasgow. He is now based in Shanghai as a business advisor and analyst. He is the author of multiple works of Asian History; Carl Crow: A Tough Old China Hand, North Korea: The Paranoid Peninsula and Through the Looking Glass: China’s Foreign Journalists from the Opium Wars to Mao. His most recent book Midnight in Peking investigates the brutal murder of 19-year old Paula Werner, during 1930s Beijing.
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Zsuzsi Gartner
Canadian writer Zsuzsi Gartner is the author of the short fiction collections Better Living Through Plastic Explosives and All the Anxious Girls on Earth.
Canadian writer Zsuzsi Gartner is the author of the short fiction collections Better Living Through Plastic Explosives and All the Anxious Girls on Earth. She also serves as the creative director of Vancouver Review’s Blueprint BC Fiction Series. Her stories have been widely anthologized and broadcast on CBC and NPR’s Selected Shorts. A long-time contributing reviewer for The Globe & Mail, Gartner has received numerous nominations and awards for her magazine journalism, including a 2007 National Magazine Award for fiction. Gartner lives in Vancouver.
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Emily Gravett
Emily Gravett is a British children's book author and illustrator.
British children’s book writer Emily Gravett spent eight years living on the road before settling back in Brighton and getting a place on the Illustration course at Brighton University. Her children’s books have received numerous prizes and accolades, including Wolves and Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears and Monkey and Me. Her latest title is Again!. She lives in Brighton with her daughter Oleander, partner Mik and their two pet rats, Buttons and Mr. Mao.
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Han Dong
Han Dong is the author of Banished! and Metamorphosis of an Educated Youth/Screwed.
Born in 1961 in Nanjing, Han Dong (韩东) grew up in the countryside after his parents were banished there during the Cultural Revolution. When the Cultural Revolution ended, he studied philosophy at Shandong University and taught philosophy at colleges in Xi’an and Nanjing. Han began writing in 1980 and is one of China’s most important avant-garde poets. His first novel Banished! was long-listed for the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize. His most recent novel is 知青变形记 (Metamorphosis of an Educated Youth/Screwed).
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Scarlet He
Scarlet He is a founding member of Apabi, a global leader in digital publishing technologies.
Scarlet He is a founding member of Apabi, a global leader in digital publishing technologies. Apabi has been awarded many national awards in many fields such as technology and copyright protection.
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Justin Hill
Justin Hill is the author of Shieldwall.
Born in the Bahamas and raised in England, Justin Hill is an acclaimed novelist, travel writer, essayist and poet. During the nineties, he served for seven years with the VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) in rural China and Africa. His first novel, The Drink and Dream Teahouse, won the 2003 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize twice and translated into fifteen languages. Shieldwall is the first volume in his Conquest Trilogy, set in the period around the Battle of Hastings. He is a contributing editor to the Asian Literary Review and teaches writing at the City University of Hong Kong.
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Hong Ying
Hong Ying is a poet and fiction writer.
Fiction writer and poet Hong Ying (虹影) was born in Chongqing in 1962 and started writing in the early 1980s. In 1991, she settled in England but returned to China in 2004. Her autobiography, Daughter of the River (饥饿的女儿), as well as her novels, Summer of Betrayal, The Art of Love, Peacock Cries (孔雀的叫喊) and Concubine of Shanghai (上海王), have all been translated into English. Her responsibility as a writer, she believes, is to compassionately explore the lives of marginalized groups struggling for visibility in contemporary China.
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Mara Hvistendahl
Mara Hvistendahl is a correspondent with Science magazine and the author of Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men.
Mara Hvistendahl is a correspondent with Science magazine and a contributor to publications ranging from Foreign Policy to Popular Science. She has spent much of the past decade in China, reporting on everything from archaeology to Beijing’s space programme. Her first book Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men looks at how sex-selection led to a 160 million girl gender gap in Asia and the consequences that will have on the world.
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Jin Renshun
Jin Renshun (金仁顺) is a fiction writer and screenwriter of Korean descent.
Born in Jilin Province in 1970, Jin Renshun (金仁顺) is a fiction writer and screenwriter of Korean descent. Her major works include a novel, 春香 (Spring Fragrance) and several short story collections, including 彼此 (Each Other). She also wrote the screenplay for the 2003 film 绿茶 (Green Tea). For a decade an editor at the literary journal 春风 (Spring Breeze), Jin is now a freelance writer.
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Sally Kindberg
Sally Kindberg is the illustrator of The Comic Strip Big Fat Book of Knowledge.
Sally Kindberg is the illustrator of The Comic Strip History of the World and The Comic Strip History of Space. Her most recent work is The Comic Strip Big Fat Book of Knowledge. She lives with her daughter Emerald in London.
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Joshua Knelman
Joshua Knelman is a journalist and the author of Hot Art.
Joshua Knelman is an award-winning journalist and editor and the author of Hot Art, a fascinating investigation of international art theft. He was a founding editorial member of The Walrus magazine and his writing has appeared in Toronto Life, Saturday Night, The National Post and the Globe and Mail. Knelman’s feature article “Artful Crimes” in The Walrus won a gold National Magazine Award. Knelman is also the co-editor of Four Letter Word: New Love Letters. He lives in Toronto.
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Andrei Kurkov
Andrei Kurkov is the Ukrainian author of Death of a Penguin and The Milkman in the Night.
Born in Leningrad to a test pilot father and doctor mother, Andrei Kurkov is an Ukrainian who writes in Russian. Kurkov began writing, first for children and then for adults, while working as a prison guard in Odessa. His absurdist take on the post-Soviet era has made him a bestseller in Europe. Death of a Penguin was the first of Kurkov’s novels to be translated into and published in English. His most recent novel to be translated into English, The Milkman in the Night, takes Kurkov’s dark satire to post-Orange Revolution Kiev.
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James Kynge
James Kynge is editor of China Confidential and author of China Shakes the World.
James Kynge is editor of China Confidential, a specialist research service at the Financial Times that focuses on the Chinese economy. He has spent 16 of the last 25 years living in China, first as a Reuters reporter in the 1980s, then as the FT Bureau Chief in Beijing for seven years until 2005 and subsequently as an executive heading up the Pearson Group operations in the PRC. His award-winning book, China Shakes the World, was an international bestseller and has been translated into 19 languages.
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Margo Lanagan
Australian Margo Lanagan is the author of short stories and young adult fiction.
Australian Margo Lanagan is the author of short stories and young adult fiction. Her short story collection Black Juice won two World Fantasy Awards and a 2006 Printz Honor Award. In 2007, The American Library Association named the short story collection White Time a Best Book for Young Adults. Tender Morsels won a World Fantasy Award in 2009 for best novel. Her most recent work, Sea Hearts, a novel of love, transformation and selkies, won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella in 2010. Brought to you by the Australian Embassy of Beijing’s Australian Writers’ Week.
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Luka Lesson
Luka Lesson is an Australian writer whose work blends hip-hop, poetry and music.
Luka Lesson is an Australian writer whose work blends hip-hop, poetry and music. The winner of the 2011 Australian National Slam Championship, Lesson is the Melbourne City Library poet in-residence, and the cofounder and co-director of The Centre for Poetics and Justice, an organization that uses poetry for community engagement and development. He has spent years conducting hip-hop or poetry workshops with Indigenous, Islander, African and other marginalized communities in Australia. His first book The Confluence is set to be released in 2012 and will be accompanied by a recorded album of his work.
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Li Jingze
Li Jingze (李敬泽) is the editor-in-chief of People’s Literature magazine and of PathLight.
One of China’s most influential literary critics, Li Jingze (李敬泽) is the editor-in-chief of People’s Literature magazine and of PathLight. After graduating from the department of Chinese Language and Literature of Peking University, Li Jingze served as an editor and booster for many Chinese authors. He is the author of numerous volumes of essays and literary criticism and has received the Lu Xun literary prize, the Chinese Media Literary Prize’s Annual Critics Award and the Fengmu Literary Prize’s Young Critics Award.
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Liang Hong
Liang Hong (梁鸿) is the author of a work of non-fiction 中国在梁庄 (China as in Liang Village).
Liang Hong (梁鸿) is a graduate of Beijing Normal University and the holder of a doctorate in literature, where her research focused on Chinese contemporary literature. She is the author of a work of non-fiction 中国在梁庄 (China as in Liang Village) and numerous academic studies of Chinese literature. The winner of the prestigious 2010 People’s Literature Award, Liang now teaches Chinese at the China Political Academy for Youth and conducts post-doctoral research at the School of Liberal Arts of Renmin University.
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Julia Lovell
Julia Lovell is a lecturer in modern Chinese history and literature at the University of London and the author of the Opium War and Its Afterlives.
Julia Lovell is a lecturer in modern Chinese history and literature at the University of London. She has written three books on China: The Politics of Cultural Capital: China’s Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature, The Great Wall: China Against the World 1000 BC-AD 2000 and most recently, The Opium War and Its Afterlives. An award-winning translator, she has made the works of Lu Xun, Eileen Chang and Zhu Wen available to English language audiences. She writes on China for The Guardian, The Times of London, The Economist and The Times Literary Supplement.
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Jo Lusby
Jo Lusby is the General Manager of Penguin China.
Jo Lusby is the General Manager of Penguin China. Prior to joining Penguin, Lusby spent five years with Swiss group Ringier, spending the final three years as editor-in-chief of English language publishing, including City Weekend entertainment magazine and custom publishing. She studied English Literature and Language in the Universities of Leeds, UK and Salzburg, Austria, and plays fiddle in an Irish band with no name. She comes from Manchester.
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Mary Kay Magistad
Mary Kay Magistad covers East Asia for The World.
For almost 6 years, veteran foreign correspondent Mary Kay Magistad has covered East Asia for The World. From the geopolitical struggle over North Korea's weapons program, to the SARS epidemic, to tensions in Kashmir, Magistad has brought local perspective to stories with international impact. Before joining the staff of The World she covered Southeast Asia and China for National Public Radio, the Washington Post, and other media for twelve years. She opened NPR's first Beijing bureau and covered a wide range of political, economic, cultural, and social issues, including Chinese war games preceding Taiwan's first presidential elections, the crackdown on the Falun Gong spiritual sect, and increasing tensions in the Sino-US relationship. She has also reported from Africa, covering the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda, the challenges of famine in Ethiopia and the Polisario's forgotten war in the Western Sahara. Magistad earned her BS in journalism at Northwestern University and an MA in international relations at Sussex University in England, completed on a Rotary Foundation fellowship. She was a 1999-2000 Nieman fellow and a 2001-2002 Radcliffe fellow, both at Harvard University.
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Mai Jia
Mai Jia (麦家) is an award-winning author and screenwriter of spy thrillers.
Mai Jia (麦家) is an award-winning author and screenwriter. After a stint in the army, Mai became one of China’s most popular spy thriller authors, using the Republican Period (1913-1949) as a backdrop. Several of his books, including 暗算 (Covert Operation) and 风声 (The Message), have been adapted for TV and film.
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Dorota Maslowska
Dorota Maslowska is the Polish author of Snow White and Russian Red.
Dorota Maslowska’s first novel Snow White and Russian Red, published when she was nineteen, was a bestseller in both her native Poland and in Germany. The book, which portrays the lives of young people growing up in post-communist Eastern Europe, won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis. An English translation of her debut play A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians was staged at London’s Soho Theatre. Her second novel Paw królowej (The Queen’s Peacock) won the NIKE Award, Poland’s highest literary honour, in 2006. Brought to you by the Embassy of Poland.
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Mark McKenna
Mark McKenna is one of Australia’s leading historians and essayists.
Mark McKenna is one of Australia’s leading historians and essayists. A research fellow in History at the University of Sydney, he is the author of several prize winning books. His latest book is An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark, a biography of historian Manning Clark, one of Australia’s most controversial and influential cultural figures. It was shortlisted for the 2011 Walkley Foundation Non-Fiction Book Award. Brought to you by the Walkley Foundation and the Australian Embassy of Beijing Australian Writers’ Week.
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Belinda McKeon
Belinda McKeon is an Irish playwright, journalist and novelist.
An award-winning playwright and journalist, Belinda McKeon was born in Ireland in 1979 and grew up on her parents’ farm. She studied literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia. A contributor to The Irish Times and The Paris Review, McKeon curated Ireland’s largest poetry festival, DLR Poetry Now, from 2008 to 2011. Her debut novel Solace has been named a Kirkus Outstanding Debut and nominated for the Newton First Book Award. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband. Brought to you by the Embassy of Ireland.
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James Miles
James Miles has been the Beijing-based China correspondent for The Economist since 2001.
James Miles has been the Beijing-based China correspondent for The Economist since 2001. Before that, he held many positions with the BBC, including Beijing Bureau Chief for BBC News and Current Affairs, Hong Kong Correspondent for BBC World Service and Senior Chinese Affairs Analyst for BBC News London. Miles has written several special reports for The Economist on China and Taiwan.
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Murong Xuecun
Murong Xuecun is the author of Leave Me Alone: A Novel of Chengdu.
Murong Xuecun (慕容雪村) was born in 1974 in China’s North East and spent his childhood in Jilin province. In 1996, he graduated from China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing and worked as a lawyer and sales manager for a car company. He started to write in 2001. After the publication of his novel Leave Me Alone: A Novel of Chengdu, Murong gave up his job, and devoted himself to writing full time. He was long-listed for the 2008 Man Asia Literary Prize and in 2010, won the People’s Literature Prize.
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Amos Nadai
Amos Nadai is the Israeli ambassador to China.
Amos Nadai has been the Israeli ambassador to China since 2007. Born in 1948 in Romania, Nadai served in the IDF Services before attending Hebrew University Law School. He joined the Israeli embassy in France as a staff member in 1975 and since then has held a series of positions in the diplomatic service and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including stints in Japan, Hungary and Thailand. From 1997 to 2001, Nadai served as ambassador to Norway and Iceland. He speaks English, French, Hungarian, Japanese and Hebrew and is an amateur photographer.
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Jenny Niven
Jenny Niven is the Wheeler Centre’s Associate Director.
Jenny Niven is the Wheeler Centre’s Associate Director. Previously, she directed the events programme at The Bookworm Beijing and served as the director of The Bookworm International Literary Festival. Niven was books editor at Time Out Beijing from 2006 to 2008. She contributed to Beijing: Portrait of a City, as well as to numerous travel guides. She joined the Wheeler Centre staff after holding the position of Programme Manager at the Melbourne Writers Festival.
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Evan Osnos
Evan Osnos writes on China for The New Yorker.
Evan Osnos joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2008. He is the magazine’s correspondent in China, reporting on everything from China’s young neoconservatives to the influx of African migrants. Previously, he worked as the Beijing bureau chief of the Chicago Tribune, where he contributed to a series that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He has received the Asia Society’s Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia (2007) and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists (2006).
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James Palmer
James Palmer is the author of The Death of Mao.
The winner of the 2003 Shiva Naipaul Prize for travel writing, James Palmer has worked with Daoist and Buddhist groups in China and Mongolia on environmental issues. His first book The Bloody White Baron was shortlisted for the 2008 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. His second book, The Death of Mao, will be published in 2012. He lives in Beijing.
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Tom Pattinson
Tom Pattinson is the founder and director of Affordable Art China.
Tom Pattinson is the founder and director of Affordable Art China, an annual sale of contemporary Chinese art. The former editor-in-chief of Time Out Beijing, Pattinson is also the Director at Large at Bespoke Beijing, a boutique travel agency. He has a degree in Chinese and Social Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies.
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Olivier Philipponnat
Olivier Philipponnat is the biographer of Irène Némirovsky, author of Suite Française.
Olivier Philipponnat is the biographer of Irène Némirovsky, author of Suite Française. Formerly a music critic at Compact and Cinefonia, Philipponnat is currently a literary critic for parutions.com and the Magazine des livres. He previously wrote a highly-praised biography of L'Observateur founder Roger Stéphane. The Life of Irène Némirovsky, co-authored with Patrick Lienhardt, won the 2008 Le Points prize for biography.
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Alison Pick
Alison Pick is a Canadian poet and novelist.
Alison Pick is a Canadian poet and novelist. Her book Question & Answer won a slew of poetry prizes, including the 2002 Bronwen Wallace Award for most promising Canadian writer under the age of 35 and the 2003 National Magazine Award for Poetry. Pick also won the 2005 CBC Literary Award for Poetry. Her first novel, The Sweet Edge, was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the year. Her latest novel Far to Go is a riveting family epic set in Czechoslovakia during World War II. It was long listed for the Man Booker Prize, and won the 2011 Canadian Jewish Book Award. Rights have been sold in Canada, the US, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Brazil, and the Czech Republic, and the novel has been optioned for film. Currently on Faculty at the Humber School for Writers, Alison Pick lives in Toronto where she is at work on a memoir.
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Qin Liwen
Chinese journalist and writer Qin Liwen (覃里雯) works for International Crisis Group.
Chinese journalist and writer Qin Liwen (覃里雯) works for International Crisis Group. She has written for Chinese news outlets from Singapore, New York, Pakistan, Israel and Europe. Her articles and interviews have been collected in 冷 酷的新闻纸 (News is Cruel). Qin served as the Director of News Center for Sohu.com, one of the biggest portal Web sites in China for 2 years, before becoming the Director of News Center for Modern Media, China in 2010.
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Qiu Huadong
Qiu Huadong is the editorial director of PathLight magazine.
Born in Changji, Xinjiang, Qiu Huadong (邱华栋) was a leading writer of new urban fiction in the 1990s. Qiu capitalizes upon his experiences as a journalist to write contemporary fiction with a strong ethnographic dimension. Since first publishing poetry at age sixteen, Qiu has published many works spanning a wide range of genres: novels, short stories, novellas, poetry essays and an internet novella. His works have been translated into English, Japanese and German. He is the editorial director of PathLight magazine.
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Catherine Sampson
Catherine Sampson is a British crime novelist based in Beijing.
Catherine Sampson first came to China as a 19-year old student and has lived in China on and off for fifteen years. She holds a degree in Chinese from Leeds University and has studied at Fudan University and Harvard. A former China correspondent for the BBC and The Times, Sampson is the author of four crime novels, Falling Off Air, Out of Mind, The Pool of Unease and The Slaughter Pavilion. She lives with her husband and three children in Beijing.
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Albert Sánchez Piñol
Albert Sánchez Piñol is a Catalan science fiction writer and anthropologist.
Albert Sánchez Piñol is a Catalan science fiction writer and anthropologist affiliated with the Center for African Studies at the University of Barcelona. Cold Skin (La Pell Freda), a grim tale featuring an island populated by killer amphibians, was the first of his works to be translated into English. It was awarded the 2003 Ojo Crítico Prize and the 2005 Grinzane-Francesco Biamonti Prize. His novel Pandora in the Congo (Pandora al Congo) won the 2006 Crítica Serra D’Or Prize. His literary works have been translated into 35 languages. Brought to you by the Cervantes Institute of Beijing and the Embassy of Spain.
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Qaisra Shahraz
Qaisra Shahraz is a prize-winning and critically acclaimed novelist and scriptwriter.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Qaisra Shahraz is a prize-winning and critically acclaimed novelist and scriptwriter. Born in Pakistan, she has lived in the UK since childhood. Her novels, The Holy Woman and Typhoon, have been translated into several languages, including Chinese. The Holy Woman won the Jubilee award. Her drama serial The Heart Is It was broadcast globally and won two TV Awards in Pakistan. Shahraz also works as an educational consultant, teacher trainer and college inspector.
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Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart is the author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Absurdistan, Super Sad True Love Story.
Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972 and moved to the United States seven years later. His debut novel, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. The New York Times Book Review named his second novel, Absurdistan, one of the 10 Best Books of the Year and his third novel, Super Sad True Love Story was similarly well received. He has been selected as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists and was named to the New Yorker’s prestigious 20 under 40 list in 2010. He lives in New York City.
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Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Icelandic author Yrsa Sigurðardóttir was an award-winning children’s author before turning her hand to adult crime thrillers.
Icelandic author Yrsa Sigurðardóttir was an award-winning children’s author before turning her hand to adult crime thrillers. The first of these, featuring lawyer and single mother Thora Gudmundsdottir, was published in English as Last Rituals. Her most recent novel to be translated into English is The Day is Dark. She lives with her husband and two children in ReykjavÍk, where she also works as a civil engineer. Brought to you by the Embassy of Iceland.
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Rowan Simons
Rowan Simons is the author of Bamboo Goalposts.
Rowan Simons has lived (and played football) in China for 20 years. He is a presenter on Beijing TV, with his own media and production company (CMM Intelligence) and is chairman of ClubFootball. He is the author of Bamboo Goalposts, a book about the long march of soccer in China, which was shortlisted for the 2008 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.
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Andrew Simpson
Andrew Simpson, founder and CEO of Instinct–Animals for Film, has been working with animals in the film industry for over 20 years.
Andrew Simpson, founder and CEO of Instinct–Animals for Film, has been working with animals in the film industry for over 20 years. He recently worked on a film production made with wolves in Siberia, sometimes at temperatures reaching –60 degrees, documented in the behind-the-scenes film and a photobook, Wolves Unleashed. His latest project is to train the wolves who will star in the upcoming film adaptation of Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.
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Kjersti Skomsvold
Kjersti Skomsvold is the Norwegian author of The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am.
Kjersti Skomsvold was born in Oslo in 1979. Her debut novel, The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am, won the Tarej Vesaas’ Debutant Prize, awarded by the Norwegian Authors’ Union for the best first novel publish in Norway, and was also nominated for the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize. It has been translated into eight languages. In 2012, the National Theatre in Oslo will produce a play based on the novel. Brought to you by NORLA.
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Maria Tumarkin
A historian and writer, Maria Tumarkin is the author of three books of non-fiction, Traumascapes, Courage and most recently Otherland.
A historian and writer, Maria Tumarkin was born in 1974 in the former Soviet Union and moved with her family to Australia in 1989. She is the author of three books of non-fiction, Traumascapes, Courage and most recently Otherland. Her work, which combines memoir and history, has been shortlisted for various literary awards. She lives in Melbourne with her two children. Brought to you by the Australian Embassy of Beijing Australian Writers’ Week.
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Janette Turner Hospital
Australian author Janette Turner Hospital, followed her debut novel The Ivory Swing with eight award-winning novels and four short story collections.
Australian author Janette Turner Hospital, followed her debut novel The Ivory Swing with eight award-winning novels and four short story collections. Oyster, her sixth novel, was a finalist for Australia’s Miles Franklin Prize Award. Due Preparations for the Plague won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award. Orpheus Lost, her most recent novel, was named one of Booklist’s Top 30 novels of the year. She holds an endowed chair as Carolina Distinguished Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. Brought to you by the Australian Embassy of Beijing Australian Writers’ Week.
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Christopher Warren
Christopher Warren is the Federal Secretary of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance.
Christopher Warren is the Federal Secretary of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance. He has spoken and written widely on issues affecting the media and entertainment sector. A journalist, Warren is also CEO of the Walkley Foundation for Excellence in Journalism and a longtime trustee of the Media Super, a pension fund for media and arts professionals. He is immediate past president of the International Federation of Journalists. Brought to you by the Walkley Foundation.
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Chris Womersley
Chris Womersley is the author of the novels The Low Road and Bereft.
Chris Womersley’s fiction and reviews have appeared in Granta and been anthologized in The Best Australian Stories (2006, 2010 and 2011). His debut novel, The Low Road, won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. His second novel, Bereft, won the Australian Book Industry Award for Literary Fiction and the Indie Award for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, The Age fiction prize and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Brought to you by the Australian Council.
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Xiao Bai
Xiao Bai (小白) is the penname of the Shanghai born author of 租界 (Foreign Concession).
Xiao Bai (小白) is the penname of the Shanghai born author of 租界 (Foreign Concession), a much-praised novel about a French-Chinese photographer who becomes entangled with a Jewish gunrunner, a terrorist group and the police in 1930s Shanghai. His first novel 局点 (Game Point) was published in 2010. Previously, Xiao worked for international corporations, founded his own companies and joined China’s first group of voluntary movie translators, providing Chinese subtitles for pirated Western movies.
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Xiong Lei
Xiong Lei (熊磊) is a celebrated author of children’s literature, a cartoon screenwriter and a publisher of picture books.
Born in Zhejiang, China, Xiong Lei (熊磊) is a celebrated author of children’s literature, a cartoon screenwriter and a publisher of picture books. His comics have been published in Girlfriend, Humorous Master, Kids and Kindergarten. His works include: The Mole’s Potato, Snail Express Delivery, comic books like Long Noses and Short Noses and Little Dog B. In 2002, Xiong was awarded the Bingxin Children’s Novel Prize for The Last Soul. Currently, he is working as an editor of children’s books.
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Xiong Liang
Xiong Liang (熊亮) is renowned for his poetry, prose, powerfully emotive paintings and children’s book illustrations.
Xiong Liang (熊亮), originally from Zhejiang Province, is renowned for his poetry, prose, powerfully emotive paintings and children’s book illustrations. Drawing from the rhythmic lines of traditional Chinese art, Xiong’s work undertakes many different styles to emphasize that painting is a marriage of form and spirit. He has written and illustrated a number of children’s books, including Paper Horse (纸马).
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Xu Zhiyuan
Xu Zhiyuan (许知远) is the co-founder of One-Way Street Library and the author of several collections of non-fiction.
Xu Zhiyuan (许知远) was born in 1976. A graduate of Peking University with a degree in Computer Science, he is currently the editor-in-chief of the Chinese edition of Business Weekly and is a contributor to various other magazines. He is the co-founder of One-Way Street Library and the author of several collections of non-fiction, including: 那些郁怅的轻人 (All Those Melancholy Youth), 中国记事 (China Record) and 纳斯达克的一代 (The NASDAQ Generation). His latest book is A Wander’s World (一个游荡者的世界).
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A.B. Yehoshua
Isralei writer A.B. Yehoshua is the prolific author of award-winning novels, short stories, plays and essays.
A.B. Yehoshua was born in Jerusalem to a Sephardi Jerusalemite family. A Professor of literature at Haifa University, Yehoshua has been a visiting professor at Harvard, the University of Chicago and Princeton. A prolific author of novels, short stories, plays and essays, Yehoshua has received many literary prizes, among them: the Brenner Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, the Viareggio Prize for Lifetime Achievement and the first Israeli Literature Prize. Yehoshua’s work has been published in 28 languages and adapted for film, television, theatre and opera. Brought to you by the Embassy of Israel.
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Ouyang Yu
Ouyang Yu is an Australian-Chinese writer, translator and academic.
Ouyang Yu is an Australian-Chinese writer, translator and academic. Since moving to Australia in 1991, Yu has published 55 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, literary translation and literary criticism in English and Chinese. His work includes the novel The Eastern Slope Chronicle, the poetry collection Songs of the Last Chinese Poet and a book of literary criticism, Chinese in Australian Fiction: 1888-1988. He also edits Australia’s only Chinese literary journal, Otherland. He is now based in Melbourne. Brought to you by the Australian Embassy of Beijing Australian Writers’ Week.
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Yu Hua
Yu Hua (余华) is the author of the novels Brothers and To Live and the essay collection China in Ten Words.
Born in Zhejiang Province in 1960, Yu Hua (余华) grew up during the height of the Cultural Revolution. He is the author of four novels, six collections of stories, and three collections of essays. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. In 2002, he became the first Chinese writer to win the James Joyce Award. His novel Brothers was short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize. His latest book is China in Ten Words. Yu Hua lives in Beijing.
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Zhang Lijia
Zhang Lijia (张丽佳) is a factory worker turned writer, journalist and talk show host.
Zhang Lijia (张丽佳) is a factory worker turned writer, journalist and talk show host. Her articles have appeared in many publications, including South China Morning Post, The Guardian, Newsweek and The New York Times. She is the co-author of China Remembers. Her memoir Socialism Is Great!, about her decade-long experience working at a rocket factory in Nanjing in the 80’s, was first published in the US in 2008 and has been translated into numerous languages around the world.
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Zhu Wen
Zhu Wen 朱文 is a poet and screenwriter.
Zhu Wen 朱文 was born in Fujian Province in 1967. He began publishing his poetry in 1989 and since then has published two collections of poetry, one novel and six novellas and short story collections, including I Love Dollars. Zhu is also an accomplished screenwriter and director: his directorial debut Seafood won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Venice Film Festival, and his second film South of the Clouds was awarded the NETPAC Prize at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival. He currently lives in Beijing.
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