Dai Sijie
Dai Sijie ( Chinese 戴思傑 / 戴思杰 , Pinyin Dài Sījié , born March 2, 1954 in Chengdu , Sichuan Province , People's Republic of China ) is a Chinese writer, screenwriter and director living in France .
Life
Dai Sijie was born the son of a medical doctor . From 1971 to 1974 he was sent to a mountain village in Sichuan as part of the cultural re-education . Employed in a high school in the provinces, he studied art history after Mao's death and emigrated to Paris in 1984 . His re-education experience later served as inspiration for his first novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress , which was a great international success and was filmed in a Franco-Chinese production in 2002. Dai also wrote the script and directed the film.
Awards
- 2000 Prix Relay du Roman d'Evasion for Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress , as well
- 2000 Prix Edmée de la Rochfoucault ' for the same novel and
- 2001 Prix Roland de Jouvenel for the same novel.
- Prix Femina for his novel Muo and the oriole in the cage .
Works
- Books
- Trois Vies chinoises , Paris 2011
- L'acrobatie aérienne de Confucius. Novel . Flammarion, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-08-121313-5 .
- Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress . Roman ("Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise"). New edition Piper, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-25079-5 (translated from French by Giò Waeckerlin Induni).
- Muo and the oriole in the cage. Roman ("Le complexe de Di"). Piper, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-492-24520-3 (from the French by Giò Waeckerlin Induni).
- Like a wanderer on a moonless night. Roman ("Par une nuit où la lune ne s'est pas levée"). New edition Piper, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-26373-3 (translated from French by Giò Waeckerlin Induni).
- Audio books
- Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress . Audio book. Steinbach's Talking Books, Schwäbisch Hall 2009, ISBN 978-3-88698-732-0 (5 CDs, read by Edgar M. Böhlke).
- Like a wanderer on a moonless night . Audio book. Steinbach Talking Books, Schwäbisch Hall 2009, ISBN 978-3-88698-959-1 (6 CDs, read by Svenja Wasser, Werner Rehm and Patrick Heppt).
Filmography
- 1989: China, my pain (Niu-Peng) - (director and screenplay), awarded the Prix Jean Vigo
- 1994: Le mangeur de lune - (director and screenplay)
- 1996: La plante humaine - (Actor)
- 1998: Nguol thù - (Director and screenplay)
- 2002: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Xiao cai feng) - (Director and screenplay)
- 2006: The Chinese Gardener's Daughters (Les filles du botaniste chinois) - (Director and screenplay)
Web links
- Literature by and about Dai Sijie in the catalog of the German National Library
- Dai Sijie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Short biography and reviews of works by Dai Sijie at perlentaucher.de
- Biblioweb: biography, bibliography (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ A translation in Chinese has been published, ISBN 7-5302-0674-5
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dai, Sijie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese writer, screenwriter and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chengdu , Sichuan Province , People's Republic of China |