- Li Dawei
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name = LI Dawei (李大卫)
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birthdate = 1963
birthplace =Beijing ,China
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occupation = Novelist
genre = Literary
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website =Li Dawei is a Chinese writer. He began writing poetry at age 17, and in 1985 graduated from
Beijing Normal University with a degree in English.cite news|url=http://www.ouline.de/topic/index_text.php/?id=wenhua&story_id=6288|title=在德国“路演”中国当代小说 (In Germany, "road show" of contemporary Chinese literature)|date=2004-12-08|accessdate=2007-03-22|publisher=Ouline.de] Two years later, he made his first visit to theUnited States , to attend Creative Writers Program sponsored by U.S. Information agency.Fact|date=April 2007 Since 1987, he has been publishing theoretical works about art and literature and in 1997, he published his first novel, "Dream Collector", which is centred with a young musician and a talking cat that is later converted into a cartoon star. He won Select Short Stories Monthly prize in 1996 and, in 1997, was short-listed for Lu Xun Prize, China's arguably highest award for literature. He was given October Prize in 2000. He currently resides in Los Angeles. He is also a columnist forCaijing MagazineWorks
Books
* 念珠·击壤 (Lijiang Publishing House, 1987)
* 集梦爱好者 ("Dream Collector"; Authors' Publishing House, 1997)
* "China Wenxueshi Building oder: Heimatstraße West 2a", published in "Das Leben ist jetzt"；Suhrkamp Publishing House, Frankfurt 2003
* 卡通猫的美国梦 ("A Cartoon Cat's American Dream"; Shandong Literary Publishing House, 2005) [cite news|url=http://www.nanfangdaily.com.cn/southnews/tszk/nfdsb/ydzk/200604170063.asp|title=耗子被逮住的忧愁 (The sorrow of the mouse that got caught)|last=Tang|first=Qing|publisher=Nanfang Daily|date=2006-04-17|accessdate=2007-04-04]
* "China Wenxueshi Building - via Jia Yuan Ovest 2", published in "Cina - Undici scrittori della rivoluzione pop"; Gruppo Editoriale il Saggiatore S.p.A., Milano 2006Magazine articles
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* (2006) Magic Mountain Club, published in "du - Magazine for culture" No. 6/7, SwissReferences
External links
* [http://book.sina.com.cn/nzt/his/xinxinzhongguo/83.shtml 李大卫的幻想生涯]
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