- Liu Heng
Liu Heng (zh-sp |s=刘恒|p=Liú Héng) (1954-) is generally seen as a realist writer. He became a professional writer in the 1970s after having worked as a peasant farmer, a factory worker and a soldier, classes which have served as fodder for his stories and not incidentally classes which
Mao Zedong promoted as the audience for literature in his 1942 [http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/classics/mao/sw3/mswv3_08.html Talks At The Yenan Forum On Literature And Art] . "Dogshit Food" won the 1985-86 best short story award. "Fuxi Fuxi" won him the national Prize for Best Novelettes in 1987, and was the basis for the movieJu Dou . His novel "Hēi de xuě" (Black Snow; 黑的雪), about the problems faced by a young juvenile delinquent upon his release from prison, was also made into a feature film, and "Pínzuǐ Zhāng Dàmín dē xìngfú shēnghuó" (The Happy Life of Chatter-box Zhang Damin; 贫嘴张大民的幸福生活) has been made into a television series.Works
Short Stories
"Dogshit Food" (狗日的粮食) Tr. Sabina Knight. In Joseph S. M. Lau and Howard Goldblatt, eds., "Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature". NY: Columbia University Press, 1995, 416-428. ISBN 0-231-08002-6
"Grain." Tr. William Riggle. "Chinese Literature" (Summer 1990): 3-17.
"The Heated Earthen Bed." Trs. Ren Zhong and Yuzhi Yang. In "Hometowns and Childhood". San Francisco: Long River Press, 2005, 97-104 ISBN 1-59265-058-9
"The Obsessed". Tr. David Kwan. Beijing: Panda Books, 1991. (includes "Fuxi, Fuxi" 伏羲伏羲) ISBN 7-5071-0072-3; 083512083X
Novels
"Black Snow: A Novel of the Beijing Demimonde" (黑的雪). trs. H. Goldblatt. NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993 ISBN 0-87113-530-2
"Green River Daydreams: A Novel" (Cang He bai ri meng 苍河白日梦). Tr. Howard Goldblatt. New York : Grove Press, 2001 ISBN 0-8021-1690-6
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