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Name
  
Dai Houying

Died
  
1996, Shanghai, China

Role
  
Novelist

Books
  
Stones of the wall

Nominations
  
Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Dai Houying (Chinese: 戴厚英; March 1938 – 25 August 1996) was a Chinese woman novelist. Her best known work Stones in the Wall 《人啊人》 which tells the story of intellectuals named Zhao Zhenhuan, Sun Yue and He Jingfu in the Cultural Revolution, an event Dai experienced from the perspective of the persecutor, as a red guard. In 1971 she divorced her red guard husband and married the poet Wen Jie (zh:闻捷).

Dai received her bachelor's degree of Chinese literature from East China Normal University in 1960.

Works

  • Stones in the Wall 《人啊人》
  • Death of a Poet 《诗人之死》
  • References

    Dai Houying Wikipedia