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Xu Xingye

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Native name
  
徐兴业

Genre
  
Novel

Occupation
  
Novelist

Name
  
Xu Xingye


Language
  
Chinese

Role
  
Novelist

Period
  
1980 - 1990

Died
  
1990, Shanghai, China

Alma mater
  
Wuxi Academy of the Traditional Chinese Culture

Xu Xingye (simplified Chinese: 徐兴业; traditional Chinese: 徐興業; pinyin: Xú Xīngyè; 1917 - 1990) was a Chinese novelist. One of his works, Broken Golden Bowl, won the Mao Dun Literature Prize, a prestigious literature award in China.

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Biography

Xu was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang in 1917. He graduated from Wuxi Academy of the Traditional Chinese Culture (无锡国学专修学校) in 1937. After graduation, he worked in Shanghai.

Xu started to publish works in 1980. He died in Shanghai in 1990.

Novels

  • Broken Golden Bowl
  • Awards

  • Broken Golden Bowl - 3rd Mao Dun Literature Prize (1991)
  • Personal life

    Xu married Zhou Yunqin (周韵琴), her father was Zhou Zongliang (周宗良), a rich merchant in Shanghai. The couple had two sons, Xu Yuanzhang (徐元章) and Xu Yuanjian (徐元健).

    References

    Xu Xingye Wikipedia