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Occupation
  
Novelist, essayist

Genre
  
Novel, prose

Movies
  
To Live, Seventeen Years

Period
  
1984 - present

Literary movement
  
Avant-garde


Nationality
  
Chinese

Role
  
Author

Language
  
Chinese

Name
  
Yu Hua

Parents
  
Hua Zizhi, Yu Peiwen

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Born
  
April 3, 1960 (age 63) Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China (
1960-04-03
)

Alma mater
  
Lu Xun Literature School

Books
  
To Live, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, Brothers, China in Ten Words, The past and the punishments

Similar People
  
Ha Jung‑woo, Zhang Yimou, Thomas Keneally, Ge You, Zhang Yuan

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Yu Hua (simplified Chinese: 余华; traditional Chinese: 余華; pinyin: Yú Huá) is a Chinese author, born April 3, 1960 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. He practiced dentistry for five years and later turned to fiction writing in 1983 because he didn't like "looking into people’s mouths the whole day." Writing allowed him to be more creative and flexible. He grew up during the Cultural Revolution and many of his stories and novels are marked by this experience. One of the distinctive characteristics of his work is his penchant for detailed descriptions of brutal violence.

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Yu Hua has written four novels, six collections of stories, and three collections of essays. His most important novels are Chronicle of a Blood Merchant and To Live. The latter novel was adapted for film by Zhang Yimou. Because the film was banned in China, it instantly made the novel a bestseller and Yu Hua a worldwide celebrity. His novels have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Hungarian, Serbian, Turkish, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Czech and Malayalam.

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Awards

  • Grinzane Cavour Prize (1998) for To Live
  • James Joyce Award (2002). He was the first Chinese writer to receive this award.
  • Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France (2004)
  • Barnes & Noble Discovery Great New Writers Award (2004)
  • Special Book Award of China (2005)
  • Prix Courrier International (2008)

    • Works

    Note: cited works are those translated into English from the original Chinese.

    Short story collections

  • Yu, Hua; Jones, Andrew F. (trans) (1996). The Past and the Punishments. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN 0-8248-1817-2. OCLC 45727784. 
  • Leaving Home at Eighteen (Chinese: 十八岁出门远行; pinyin: Shíbā Suì Chūmén Yuǎnxíng)
  • Classical Love
  • Blood and Plum Blossoms (Chinese: 鮮血梅花; pinyin: Xiānxuè Méihuā)
  • World Like Mist: Eight Stories (pinyin: Shi shi ru yan) ISBN 986-7691-37-7
  • Yu, Hua; Barr, Allan H. (trans) (2011). China in Ten Words 十个词汇里的中国. New York: Pantheon. ISBN 978-0-307-37935-1. OCLC 701810348. 
    (simplified Chinese: 十个词汇里的中国; traditional Chinese: 十個詞彙裡的中國; pinyin: Shí Gè Cíhuì Lǐ De Zhōngguó) ISBN 978-986-120-477-2
  • Yu, Hua; Barr, Allan H. (trans) (2014). Boy in the twilight: stories of the hidden China 黄昏里的男孩. New York: Pantheon. ISBN 978-0-307-37936-8. OCLC 841899112. 
    (Chinese: 黄昏里的男孩; pinyin: Huánghūn lǐ de nánhái)

    • Novels

  • Yu, Hua; Berry, Michael (trans) (2003). To Live 活着. New York: Anchor Books. ISBN 978-1-400-03186-3. OCLC 51752247. 
    (Chinese: 活着; pinyin: Huózhe
  • Yu, Hua; Jones, Andrew F. (trans) (2003). Chronicle of a Blood Merchant 许三观卖血记. New York: Pantheon. ISBN 978-0-375-42220-1. OCLC 51978096. 
    (Chinese: 许三观卖血记; pinyin: Xǔ Sānguān Mài Xuè Jì)
  • Yu, Hua; Barr, Allan H. (trans) (2003). Cries in the Drizzle 在细雨中呼喊. New York: Anchor Books. ISBN 978-0-307-27999-6. OCLC 104878666. 
    (Chinese: 在细雨中呼喊; pinyin: Zaixiyuzhong Huhan)
  • Yu, Hua; Chow, Eileen Cheng-yin (trans); Rojas, Carlos (trans) (2009). Brothers 兄弟. New York: Pantheon. ISBN 978-0-375-42499-1. OCLC 228701323. 
    (Chinese: 兄弟; pinyin: Xiōng Dì, 2005–2006) shortlisted at the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize
  • Yu, Hua; Barr, Allan H. (trans) (2015). Seventh Day 第七天. New York: Pantheon. ISBN 978-0-804-19786-1. OCLC 883747924. 
    余华 (2013). 第七天; Diqitian 第七天 (in Chinese). Beijing: Xin xing chu ban she. ISBN 9787513312103. OCLC 853063206. 

    • References

    Yu Hua Wikipedia
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