Liu Zhenyun

Liu Zhenyun ( Chinese  刘震云 ; * May 1958 in Henan Province ) is a Chinese writer .

Life

In 1973, Liu Zhenyun joined the army and spent five years in the Gobi Desert. From 1978 to 1982 he studied Chinese language and literature at Beijing University. He then became a journalist for a farmers' daily newspaper. In 1987 his first short story, The Business in the Tower , appeared in the people's literature (Renmin Wenxue) and was received with interest by the readership. His novel cycle The Flour and the Blossoms of My Homeland was published in 1998.

His successful novel The Mobile Phone found sales in the first month with 220,000 copies and was later made into a film.

Works

• The business in the tower
• The mobile phone (successfully filmed in 2003 by Feng Xiaogang 冯小刚, English title: Cell Phone )
• The bad uncle (naojiu)
• Six fingers (liu zhi)
• Maternal uncle (niangjiu)
• Chicken feathers everywhere
• Pickpockets (made into a film in 2008, English title: Lost and found ; published in German in 2009)
• 1942. Documentation and other stories. Edited and translated from Chinese by Martin Winter. Erhard Löcker, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-85409-708-2 .
• Divorce in Chinese. Novel. Translated from the Chinese by Michael Kahn-Ackermann . Ehrenwirth, Bergisch Gladbach 2016, ISBN 978-3-431-03932-0 .

Web links

• Liu Zhenyun in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Interview: Liu Zhenyun on the loneliness of the Chinese ( memento from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Goethe-Institut China, July 2009