Yan Ge

Yan Ge was born Dai Yuexing in 1984 in Sichuan, China. She began publishing in 1994. She completed a PhD in comparative literature at Sichuan University and is the Chair of the China Young Writers Association. Her writing uses a lot of Sichuanese, rather than Standard Chinese (Mandarin).[1] People’s Literature (Renmin Wenxue 人民文学) magazine recently chose her – in a list reminiscent of The New Yorker's ‘20 under 40’ – as one of China’s twenty future literary masters. In 2012 she was chosen as Best New Writer by the prestigious Chinese Literature Media Prize (华语文学传媒大奖 最佳新人奖). Yan Ge was a guest writer at the Netherlands Crossing Borders festival in The Hague, November 2012,[2] and since then has appeared at numerous literary festivals in Europe. She now lives in Dublin.[3][4][5]

• 2003 - Chinese Literature Media Award[6]
• 2002 - 1st prize, New Concept Writing Competition[6]
• 2001 - Honored as one of China's Top 10 Young Fiction Writers by the Lu Xun Literature School of the China Writers Association

• May Queen (2008) - novel
• 《钟腻哥》Sissy Zhong - short story (translated by Nicky Harman)[7]
• 《白马》 White Horse - novella (translated by Nicky Harman)[8]
• 《照妖镜》 Demon-Reflecting Mirror[9]
• 《平乐镇伤心故事集》 "Sad Stories of Pingle Township" (5 stories including White Horse and Demon-Reflecting Mirror).[10]
• 《我们家》The Chilli Bean Paste Clan [literally, "Our Family"] - (translated by Nicky Harman) (Balestier Press, 2018), also German and French editions.[11]
• 《异兽志》 [literally "Record of Strange Beasts"] (2006) - novel, to appear in English as Strange Beasts of China (translated by Jeremy Tiang).[12]