On 25 july 2014 Wang Anyi (王安忆) will give a lecture on modern Chinese literature and will also read passages from her renowned book “The Song of Everlasting Sorrow”. The lecture takes place at the Chinese Cultural Center in Berlin, Germany.

Wang Anyi was born in Nanjing in 1954 and grew up in Shanghai. During the Cultural Revolution she was sent to Anhui province to do farm work there. Her career as a writer started in the early 70s with short stories about the life, love and work of artists in China. Back in Shanghai in 1978, she worked as an editor for a magazine and her work as a writer was supported by the Chinese Writer’s Association.

Her most famous novel, “The Song of Everlasting Sorrow”, was published in 1995 and translated into English in 2008. The book describes the life of a Shanghainese beauty in the 1940s.

Wang Anyi won numerous literature awards in China as well as Hong Kong and received a nomination for the Man Booker International Price in 2011.

Since 2004 she is a professor at the Fudan-university in Shanghai.

 

Lecture on modern Chinese literature by Wang Anyi

Date: Friday, 25 july 2014

Time: 6.30 pm

Location: Chinesisches Kulturzentrum Berlin, Germany