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Yu Hua

Yu Hua

Now one of China's most beloved novelists, Yu Hua was born in Haiyan, Zhejiang province, in 1960, and grew up in and around a hospital where his parents were both doctors. His book include the best-selling To Live (Knopf, 2003) and China in Ten Words (Anchor, 2011). He is the recipient of numerous international awards and honors, including the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour and Giuseppe Acerbi prizes, and the French Prix Courrier International. In 2004 he was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. His Paris Review Art of Fiction interview was published in 2023. 

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Latest reviews

  • The haunting idea that we are all hunting for a destination that will forever prove elusive, productively deepens the world of a book that at times threatens to fly apart, so hectic is it with messy events, unlikely coincidences, bursts of violence and acts of kindness.
    — The New York Times Book Review, Apr 10 2025
  • “This remarkable work has a strange sweetness at its core... both loving and astonishingly cruel in its depiction of China at the turn of the 20th century and at a pivotal point in its cultural and political progress.”
    — Reading the West, Jan 23 2025

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