Su Tong

Su Tong ( Chinese  蘇童  /  苏童 , Pinyin Sū Tóng ; born January 23, 1963 in Suzhou , Jiangsu Province , pseudonym of 童忠貴  /  童忠贵 , Tóng Zhōngguì ), is a Chinese author. With his short story Rote Laterne , which was published in 1990 and filmed in 1991, he became internationally known.

Life

His parents, father was a civil servant and mother worked in a cement factory, named their son Tong Zhonggui. His later chosen writer name Su Tong means "child from Suzhou".

He studied Chinese literature at the Beijing Pedagogical University and graduated in 1984 with a bachelor's degree. From 1986 to 1992 he was editor of the literary magazine Zhongshan. In 1987 his short story Memories of Mulberry Garden was published. In 1990 the story A Horde of Women and Concubines was published , which was filmed by director Zhang Yimou with the title Red Lantern . In 1993, Su went abroad for the first time. He took part in an event organized by the Goethe Institute on Chinese authors.

Awards

• 2009: Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize for The Boat of Redemption .
• 2011: Nominated for the Man Booker International Prize for his complete works.
• 2015: Winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize for Yellowbird Story .

Novels

• Red lantern. 1992, ISBN 3-442-42073-3 .
• Rice. 1998 (original 1991), ISBN 3-498-06515-7 .
• The opium family. 1998 ISBN 3-498-06329-4 .
• The tear woman. The myth of the loyal Meng. 2006 ISBN 3-8270-0687-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Su Tong in the catalog of the German National Library
• Su Tong in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Portrait: Su Tong (苏童) Goethe-Institut China

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Hua Li: Introduction to Su Tong. Chinese Literature Today, Volume 3, No 1, July 23, 2016, accessed February 6, 2017 . 
2. ^ Christiane Schmalzl: Portrait of Su Tong. Goethe-Institut China, January 2009, accessed on February 7, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Tiffany Lam: Road to redemption: Su Tong's literary smash. (No longer available online.) CNN November 18, 2009, archived from the original on March 1, 2012 ; accessed on January 29, 2017 . 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.  

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