- Zhou Keqin
Zhou Keqin (Chinese: 周克芹;
Pinyin : Zhōu Kèqín;1937 -August 5 ,1990 ), born in Jianyang County,Ziyang ,Sichuan Province of China, was a Chinese writer, regarded as a representative of Scar Literature. He is famous in China for his novel "Xu Mao and His Daughters" published in 1979, which was later made into a movie in 1981, and also won him the first-timeMao Dun Literature Prize , a prestigious novel prize in China.Zhou graduated from Chengdu Agricultural Technology School in 1958, and then became a farmer in his hometown. He published his first work "At the Well" in 1963. Afterwards, he published many short stories on newspapers. In 1979, he completed novel "Xu Mao and His Daughters", about 200,000 characters, which, in realistic style, depicted the life of a farmer's family in a desolate village, and reflected the impacts of many rural policies on this family. Zhou became a renowned writer nationwide for this novel, and was considered one of leading figures in Scar Literature.
Zhou became the vice chairman of Sichuan Writers Association in 1984, and later served as a member of Chinese Writers Association 4th council. He died of disease on August 5, 1990 in
Chengdu , at age of 53.
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