Wang Anyi

Wang Anyi

Wang Anyi, born in March 1954 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, is a contemporary writer and writer.

In 1972, he was admitted to work in Xuzhou Art Troupe. In 1976, he published his first prose work forward. He married Li Zhang in early 1981. In 1987, he was transferred to the creation Office of Shanghai Writers Association to engage in professional creation. In 1996, he published his representative work song of everlasting regret and won the fifth Mao Dun Literature Award. In 2004, love story in hair salon won the third prize of Lu Xun's excellent short story. In 2013, he was awarded the knight of French literature and art.

He is now vice chairman of China Writers Association, chairman of Shanghai Writers Association and professor of Fudan University.

In December 2017, he won the novella award of "2017 Wang Zengqi Chinese Novel Award" for his work "to the west, to the west, to the South". On May 20, 2018, Wang Anyi won the novella award of "the first Wang Zengqi Chinese Novel Award" for her novel "to the west, to the west, to the South". In October 2018, "to the west, to the west, to the South" won the "novella Award" of the fifth Yu Dafu Novel Award. On September 23, 2019, Wang Anyi's novel song of everlasting regret was selected into the collection of 70 novels in 70 years of new China.

Character experience

Born in Nanjing on March 6, 1954, native to Tong'an County, Fujian Province, mother writer Ru Zhijuan and father playwright Wang Xiaoping were deeply influenced by their mother since childhood.

In 1955, he moved to Shanghai with his mother Ru Zhijuan and studied in Shanghai primary school.

After graduating from junior high school in 1970, he went to the rural area of Wuhe County, Bengbu City, Anhui province.

In 1972, he was admitted to work in Xuzhou Art Troupe. He played Cello in the band and participated in some creative activities.

In 1976, he published his first prose work forward in Jiangsu literature and art.

In 1978, he returned to Shanghai as "childhood". In the same year, he published the short story on the plain.

In 1980, he participated in the fifth Literature Workshop of the Chinese Writers Association.

Married in early 1981, her husband, Li Zhang, married a member of a music orchestra in Xuzhou. Later he was transferred to the Shanghai music publishing house. He published a biography of literature, "loneliness and transcendence, the legend of Gould." In 1981, because of his strong desire for creation and his inability to endure the confinement of working time, he left childhood for Xuzhou to write, and finished the end of the train, which won the national excellent short story award.

In 1983, he participated in the international writing program of University of Iowa.

In 1985, xiaobaozhuang, a novella, was published in Chinese Writers Magazine, which caused repercussions and won the fourth national novella award.

He visited the United States on invitation in 1986.

In 1987, he was transferred to the creation Office of Shanghai Writers Association to engage in professional creation.

In 1996, he published his representative work song of everlasting regret, won the fifth Mao Dun Literature Award, and was selected as one of the top 100 Chinese novels in the 20th century. This book in Dangdang network books, become a best seller, and in Dangdang novel list ranked 45th.

In 2000, song of everlasting regret was selected as the most influential Chinese work in the 1990s.

In 2001, he won the first Malaysian flower trace World Chinese Literature Award and was named "the most outstanding Chinese writer" by Singapore daily.

In 2004, love story in hair salon won the third prize of Lu Xun's excellent short story.

He was nominated for the Booker international literature prize in 2011.

In 2013, he was awarded the knight of French literature and art.

On December 2, 2016, he was vice chairman and member of the Ninth National Committee of the Chinese writers' Association.

Deputies to the 13th National People's Congress

In November 2019, the novel "to the west, to the west, to the South" won the third Zhongshan Literature Award for short story and medium story.

Main works

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Creative features

It can be said that in the process of Wang Anyi's creation, there has always been a tendency, that is, to capture the rich thematic images to create a symbolic and metaphorical narrative space, and to weave a series of images in the novel to construct and expand the narrative space by means of image superposition and combination, so as to make the narrative space of the novel more three-dimensional and hierarchical . "The theme image constructs the symbolic world corresponding to the text world in the works. Because the symbolic meaning itself is uncertain, it does not show the precise semantic value, which makes the narrative time and space dilute the plot clues of the works and the internal logic of the character development, resulting in a kind of fuzzy style with the interlacing of virtual and real and the shading of light and shade.

In Wang Anyi's whole creation, there are also corresponding forms among works, styles, characters and even surface structures. In fact, this is also the projection and expression of circular thinking in the works. It contains the movement form of continuous struggle and mutual transformation between opposite poles in the circular structure, and takes the opposite relationship as the logical driving force A novel and even the whole creation develop forward. For example, from the surface structure of the text, Wang Anyi used to use the double-layer contrast structure, that is, two or two groups of unrelated and relatively independent stories developed in parallel or interlaced in a novel text, showing a polysemy and unclear meaning.

Award winning record

Character evaluation

From the perspective of literary criticism, Wang Anyi is one of those writers who are hard to follow. The theme of her novels is so complex that we can never see her next milestone clearly. (comments by Liang Yongan)

When you just generalize it according to a new function, a theoretical term, and think you have grasped it, the next work is totally another matter. She seems to be a naughty child, constantly playing hide and seek with you. (comments by Wang Jiren)

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