Cao Wenxuan

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Cao Wenxuan ( Chinese  曹文軒 , Pinyin Cáo Wénxuān ; born in January 1954 in Yancheng , Jiangsu ) is a Chinese novelist best known for his children's books. Cao is the vice president of the Beijing Authors Association. He is also a professor and graduate tutor at Beijing University . His novels have been translated into English , Dutch , French German , Italian , Japanese and Korean .

biography

Cao graduated from Peking University's Faculty of Chinese Language and Literature in 1974 and began publishing novels in 1983. He lives in Beijing.

Cao's 2012 Dingding Dangdang book series follows the lives of two brothers with Down syndrome who live in a small rural Chinese village. This book series was voted one of IBBY's Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities 2015. In the book Street Lantern No. 8, it is told from their point of view what is happening in the Froschgrünen Kachelgasse where it is located. There the protagonists of the book - an old man, a shaggy dog ​​and a lady with an umbrella - meet again and again to rest or to talk.

Hans Christian Andersen Prize

In April 2016 it was announced that Cao was the winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Prize for Children's Book Authors. The IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People), which awarded the award, said that Cao “writes wonderfully about the complex lives of children who face great challenges. He is a committed writer whose own difficult childhood had a major impact on his writing, in which there are no easy answers. ”He received the award on August 20, 2016 in Auckland, New Zealand. His speech at the award ceremony was entitled "Literature: Another Form of House Building" 《文学 ： 另 一种 造 屋》.

Works

Novels

  • 1985 The ancient walls , The Old Walls ( Chinese   古老的围墙 )
  • 1,991 goats eat grass sky , Goats Do Not Eat Grass Heaven , original title: Chinese  山羊不吃天堂草
  • 1997 Red brick and black tiles , Red Tiles and Black Tiles , original title: Chinese  红瓦黑瓦
  • 1997 The Grass House , the original title: Chinese  草房子 , German Translation: The Schilfhaus , Dragon House Publishing, ISBN 978-3-943314-33-5 , 2017
  • 1999 The Bird , The Bird , original title: Chinese  根鸟
  • 2000 The red tile roof , The Red Roof Tile , original title: Chinese  红瓦房
  • 2005 The thin rice , The Thin Rice , original title: Chinese  细米
  • 2005 Original title: Chinese  青铜葵花 , German Translation: Bronze and sunflower , Dragon House Publishing, ISBN 978-3-943314-09-0 , 2014
  • 2005 The Gourd Ladle , original title: Chinese  天瓢
  • 2008 Dawang Thome: The Amber brick , Dawang Tome: The Amber Tiles , original title: Chinese  大王书:黄琉璃
  • 2008 Dawang Tome: The red lantern , Dawang Tome: The Red Lantern , original title: Chinese  大王书:红纱灯
  • 2012 Dingding and Dangdang , Dingding and Dangdang , original title: Chinese  丁丁当当,黑痴白痴p =
  • 2014 A Cool Bird Wawa
  • 2015 fire blight , Firebrand , original title: Chinese  火印
  • 2016 dragonfly eyes , Dragonfly Eyes , original title: Chinese  蜻蜓眼

Novellas

  • 1983 A cattle without horns , A Cattle without horns ( Chinese  没有角的牛 )
  • 1988 A small buried in snow house , A Small House Buried in The Snow ( Chinese  埋在雪下的小屋 )
  • 1988 The evening came down to the ancestral temple , The Evening Has Come Down Upon The Ancestral Temple ( Chinese  暮色 笼罩 的 祠堂 )

Short stories

  • 1986 Fog covered the old castle , Mist Covered The Old Castle ( Chinese  云雾 云雾 的 古堡 )
  • 1986 The Dumb Cattle , The Dumb Cattle ( Chinese  哑 牛 )
  • 1989 The Blue Landscape , The Blue Countryside ( Chinese  忧郁的田园 )
  • 1992 The green fence , The Green Fence ( Chinese  {{{c}}} )
  • 1994 A city under the water , A City under The Water ( Chinese  水下有座城 )
  • 1994 The red gourd , The Red Calabash ( Chinese  红葫芦 )
  • 1996 Das Rosental , The Rose Valley ( Chinese  蔷薇 谷 )
  • 1997 Sanjiaodi ( Chinese  三角 地 )
  • 2005 The Windmill , The Windmill ( Chinese  野 风车 )
  • 2008 Gouyayu ( Chinese  狗 牙 雨 )
  • A very special pigeon , A Very Special Pigeon ( Chinese  一只 叫 凤 的 鸽子 )

Picture books for children

  • 2016: Street lamp No. 8 (Di ba hao jie deng; 第八 号 街灯) , Drachenhaus Verlag, ISBN 978-3943314304 , translated by Nora Frisch, illustrated by Wen Na, Chinese-German edition; Original title: ( Chinese  第八 号 街灯 , Pinyin Dì bā hào jiēdēng ), Jiangsu Shaonian Ertong Press, 2015, ISBN 9787534659126 .
  • 2017: Ein verrücktes Huhn , LeiV Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, ISBN 978-3-89603-512-7 , original title: ( Chinese  痴 鸡 ), illustrated by Yang Chunbo
  • 2017: The Last Leopard , LeiV Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, ISBN 978-3-89603-513-4 , original title: ( Chinese  最后 一只 豹子 ), illustrated by Li Rong
  • Summer in a cotton padded jacket , Summer in a Cotton Padded Jacket ( Chinese  穿 棉袄 的 夏天 )
  • Feder , Feather ( Chinese  羽毛 ), illustrated by Roger Mello, English translation by Chloe Garcia Roberts
  • Chrysanthemum doll , Chrysanthemum Doll ( Chinese  菊花 娃娃 )
  • A big fish swims east , A Big Fish Swims East ( Chinese  一条 大鱼 向东 游 )
  • Bird Boat , Bird Boat ( Chinese  鸟船 )
  • The nest of a flying bird , Flying Bird Nest ( Chinese  飞翔 的 鸟窝 )
  • Summer , Summer , translated by Yan Ding, illustrated by Yu Rong
  • Rauch , Smoke , translated by Duncan Poupard, illustrated by Yu Rong

Essays

Awards and nominations

  • Cao Wenxuan won the Hans Christian Andersen Prize in 2016 .
  • Goats Do Not Eat Heaven Grass ( Chinese  山羊 不吃 天堂 草 ) - 3rd Song Qingling Literature Prize, National Five Top Project Award
  • The Red House , Kite House Publishing, ISBN 978-3-943314-33-5 , original title: Chinese  草房子 - Bingxin Literature Prize, 4th National Book Award, National Five Top Project Award, 5. Song Qingling Literature Prize, 19th Golden Rooster Award for the best Writing (1999), Huabiao Prize (1998), 14th Tehran International Film Festival - the Golden Butterfly Prize
  • Bronze and sunflower , Dragon House Publishing, ISBN 978-3-943314-09-0 , original title: Chinese  青铜葵花 - Bingxin Literature Prize, National Book Award, National Five Top Project Award. The English translation Bronze and Sunflower was a 2017 Kirkus finalist, New York Times Notable Children's Book of 2017, and nominated for YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults award, Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature - Best Books of 2017. Helen Wang's English translation von Bronze and Sunflower earned her the Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation .
  • Dingding and Dangdang ( Chinese  丁丁 当当 ) - selected as one of the IBBY Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities 2015

Film adaptations

One of his works was adapted as a film:

  • Das Schilfhaus ( The Grass House ) ( Chinese  草 房子 ) (Director: Xu Geng)

Two more of his works were adapted into a movie: Bronze and sunflower ( Bronze and Sunflower ) and Firebrand .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Cao Wenxuan: Qingtong Kuihua ( Chinese ). Ifeng Publishing House, April 1, 2005.
  2. ↑ a b Cao Wenxuan [China ] . In: international literature festival berlin . 2006. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  3. ↑ zh: 曹文轩 好 文章 离不开 折腾 ( zh ) In: GMW . November 26, 2013. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  4. ↑ zh: 文学 大师 曹文轩 来 兰 与 师生 分享 写作 感悟 ( zh ) In: Sina . November 25, 2013. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Cao Wenxuan: The Grass House ( Chinese ). Jiangsu Children and Youth Publishing House, Jiangsu June 1, 2009.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Cao Wenxuan: Goats Do Not Eat Heaven Grass ( Chinese ). Ifeng Publishing House, Jiangsu Peoples' Publishing House, Jiangsu May 1, 2008, ISBN 9787214050625 .
  7. ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/title/bronze-et-tournesol-roman/oclc/953081297
  8. ↑ https://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/cao-wenxuan/bronze-und-sonnenblume.html
  9. ↑ http://www.giunti.it/libri/ragazzi/girasole/
  10. ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/title/cheongdong-haebalagi/oclc/902932840
  11. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from December 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ibby.org
  12. ↑ Dingding and Dangdang, 1 Brothers. https://www.chunghwabook.com.hk/Public//files/upload/9789810988425.pdf
  13. ↑ Dingding and Dangdang, 2, Blind Goat. https://www.chunghwabook.com.hk/Public//files/upload/9789810988425.pdf
  14. ↑ 2016 Hans Christian Anderson Awards . Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  15. ↑ CCTV video (2-3 mins)
  16. ↑ helenwanglondon: Literature: Another form of House Building - Cao Wenxuan's acceptance speech . October 14, 2016. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
  17. ^ English translation: Bronze and Sunflower , Translator: Helen Wang, Walker Books, London, 2015. ISBN 978-1406348460
  18. ^ French translation: Bronze et Tournesol , translator: Brigitte Guilbaud, Editions Philippe Picquier, 2010. ISBN 2809701512
  19. ↑ Book review: "Cao Wenxuan, children literature and ... talent" by Bertrand Mialaret, 2010, mychinesebooks.com ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mychinesebooks.com
  20. ↑ Italian translation: "Girasole", tr Paolo Magagnin.
  21. ^ English translation: Legends of the Dawang Tome: The Amber Tiles , Translator: Nicholas Richards, Better Chinese, California, 2015. ISBN 978-1-60603-707-2
  22. ↑ a b Dingding and Dangdang - CCPPG . Retrieved March 4, 2017.
  23. ^ A Cool Bird Wawa - CCPPG . Retrieved March 4, 2017.
  24. ^ "A Very Special Pigeon" , English translation by Helen Wang, published by the Writing Chinese Project at the University of Leeds in September 2015
  25. ↑ A Feather - CCPPG . Retrieved March 4, 2017.
  26. ↑ Starred Review in Kirkus, https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/cao-wenxuan/feather-wenxuan/
  27. ^ "Crows, by Cao Wenxuan" , English translation by Helen Wang, first published in Pathlight Magazine in September 2015, then as Read Paper Republic no.10, September 2015.
  28. ↑ IBBY Announces Winners of the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award . April 4, 2016. Archived from the original on October 22, 2016. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 22, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ibby.org
  29. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/prize/2017/finalists/young-readers/
  30. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/books/review/notable-childrens-books-2017.html
  31. ↑ http://www.ala.org/yalsa/bfya-nominations
  32. ↑ https://www.csmcl.org/best-books-2017
  33. ↑ Introducing ... The 2015 IBBY Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities! . March 11, 2015. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  34. ↑ Award winners' books get film adaptations . June 23, 2016. Retrieved November 22, 2016.

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personal data
SURNAME Cao, Wenxuan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 曹文轩 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese novelist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Yancheng , Jiangsu