Nie Gannu

Nie Gannu: Nie Gannu (Chinese:聂绀弩, 1903–1986) was a modern Chinese essayist. He was born in Jingshan, Hubei, and studied in the USSR in the 1920s. In 1927 he returned to China, and joined the Chinese Leftist Writers' League four years later. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Nie, Xia Yan, Song Yunbin, Meng Chao and Qin Si worked as redactors of the magazine Yecao (《野草》, lit. the weed). During the Chinese Civil War, his prose collections In blood(《血书》) and Muttering(《沉吟》) were published. After the founding of the PRC, he turned to Hong Kong to run the Wen Wei Po newspaper. He died on 26 March 1988 in Beijing.^[1]

^ *(Chinese) Cai Qingfu. Nie Gannu, Encyclopedia of China (Chinese Literature Edition), 1nd ed.

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Name Nie, Gannu

Alternative names

Short description Essayist and poet

Date of birth 1903

Place of birth Jingshan, Hubei, China

Date of death 26 March 1986

Place of death Beijing, China

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