It’s Yu Hua! Yu Hua's original name is a combination of his father's name, Hua Zhizhi, and his mother's name, Yu Peiwen. That is, he takes his father's surname as his name, his mother's surname as her surname, and her given name is Yu Hua.
Born on April 3, 1960 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, from Haiyan County, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, he is a contemporary Chinese writer and a committee member of the Chinese Writers Association.
In 1978, after failing the college entrance examination, he entered the health center as a dentist.
In 1983, he published his first short story "The First Dormitory".
In 1987, he published short stories such as "Going Away at the Age of Eighteen", "April 3rd Incident" and "1986", establishing his status as a pioneer writer; in the same year, he went to Beijing to study Lu Xun's literary works College further education.
In 1990, his first novel "Shouting in the Drizzle" was published.
In 1992, the novel "Alive" was published.
In 1995, the novel "Xu Sanguan Sells Blood" was published in "Harvest" magazine.
In 1998, he won the highest Italian literary award - the Grinzana Carver Literary Award for his novel "Alive"
In 2003, the English version of "Xu Sanguan Sells Blood" Won the American Barnes Nobel New Discovery Book Award.
In 2004, he was awarded the French Knight of the Order of Letters and Arts.
From 2005 to 2006, he published the upper and lower parts of the novel "Brothers". The book once caused controversy in China due to its extreme realism writing.
In May 2008, he published the essay collection "No Road Is Repeated"; in October, he won the French International Courier Foreign Novel Award for his novel "Brothers".
In 2013, he published the novel "The Seventh Day" and won the Outstanding Writer of the Year Award at the 12th Chinese Literature Media Awards for this book.
In 2015, the first collection of essays "We Live in a Huge Gap" was published.
In January 2018, he won the Super Best-Seller Award from Writers Publishing House for his novel "Alive"; in July, he published a collection of essays "I Only Know What Humans Are".
In 2021, the first novel "Wencheng" in eight years will be published.
Mo Yan’s evaluation of him:
Yu Hua is a person with strong rational thinking ability. His clear ideological context is expressed in a tortuous but not cryptic way with the help of methodical logical conversion words. Secondly, Yu Hua has the ability to cast smoke bombs in novels and capture phantoms that are both ghosts and humans in the smoke, and he is so outstanding. The combination of the above two aspects, just like the unity of contradictions, constitutes a batch of his well-organized imitation dream novels. As a result, Yu Hua became the first sober dream teller in contemporary Chinese literary circles.