Xu Xiaobin

Xu Xiaobin 徐小斌 is a prolific writer of novels, novellas, essays, and prose, as well as scripts for television and film. She was born in 1953 into an intellectual family in Beijing and is a member of the China’s Writers Association. She spent nine years in the countryside and at a factory during the Cultural Revolution until 1978 when she entered the Chinese University of Central Finance just after universities had reopened and entrance examinations were held nation wide. She began publishing her writings in 1981. Currently she works as a staff screenplay writer at China’s Television Production Center. She has published numerous fictions, novellas and collections of prose.

Her novel Feathered Serpent (Yushe 羽蛇) was published in English in 2010, and in 2011 also, the translation of her novel Dunhuang Dreams (Dunhuang yimeng 敦煌遗梦) was released. She regularly participates in international conferences on women’s writing, and was awarded the Lu Xun Prize for Literature for her 1998 novella Pisces (Shuangyu xingzuo 雙魚星座). She is also highly regarded as a painter and is skilled in the folk art of paper engraving.