Li Dawei

Li Dawei ( Chinese  李 大卫 , Pinyin Lǐ Dàwèi ; * 1963 in Beijing ) is a Chinese writer .

Life

With a degree in American literature from the Beijing College of Education in 1985, his first poems appeared in the same year under his pseudonym Weiwei. Two years later he was given the opportunity to travel to the United States for the first time as part of a scholarship to exchange ideas with other writers of his generation on an international level.

From 1989 onwards he has been working professionally with art and literary theory. In 1996 he published his first novel, Der Traumammler (Ji meng aihaozhe) . He currently lives in Los Angeles in the United States and works as a freelance writer a. a. for several Chinese-language magazines and newspapers, including Jintian (Today), Caijing and Ouline Magazin, published in Germany.

Works

• The dream collector (Ji meng aihaozhe) . Roman, Beijing 1996, ISBN 7-5063-1121-6 .
• China Wenxueshi Building or: Heimatstrasse West 2a . Narrative. In: Life is now. Suhrkamp Verlag, 2003 (out of print). Newly published in 2014 in the eBook anthology "Elfmal China Stadt", WandTiger Verlag, ISBN 978-3-9570-3972-9 .
• A 'Toon Cat's American Dream (Katongmao de meiguo meng) . Short stories, Jinan 2005, ISBN 7-5329-2488-2 .
• China Wenxueshi Building - via Jia Yuan Ovest 2 . In: Cina - Undici scrittori della rivoluzione pop . Gruppo Editoriale il Saggiatore SpA, Milano 2006, ISBN 88-7638-040-X .
• Magic Mountain Club , essay, published in "du" - magazine for culture No. 6/7 2006.
• Love, Revolution and how Kater Haohao came to Hollywood from English by Anne Rademacher as well as drawings and comics by Sheng Tao, Knaus Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-8135-0336-4 ; English title: Kids of Mao and Coke .

Literary prizes

• 1996 Choice Fiction Prize
• 2000 Literature Prize from the Chinese magazine October (Shiyue)

Web links

• Interview with the author, 2004 (in German)
• Book review A 'Toon Cat's American Dream (in Chinese language)
• Literature by and about Li Dawei in the catalog of the German National Library

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Li is the family name here, Dawei is the first name.