Zhang Jie (author)

Zhang Jie ( Chinese  張 詰  /  张洁 , Pinyin Zhāng Jié , born April 27, 1937 in Beijing , Republic of China ) is a Chinese author.

Life

Zhang grew up as a half-orphan as the daughter of an elementary school teacher without a father. She graduated from Beijing People's University in 1960 with a degree in economics and worked in mechanical engineering. Her first work, "The Music of the Forests" (1978) brought her the Chinese National Prize for Short Stories. In 1979 she received the State Literature Prize for her work "Who has more from life" and became a member of the Chinese Writers' Association. In 1980 she joined the Chinese Communist Party . She has been working as a freelancer since 1982.

Her book “Schwere Flügel”, awarded the Mao Dun Prize in 1985, was Zhang's first work in 1982 to be published in German. Her work “The prerequisites are not yet ripe” was awarded the literature prize of the Beijing wenxue magazine in 1984 (German translation in MERIAN magazine, 3/39 issue, 1986). In 1985 she took part in the West Berlin Horizontefestival ( Horizonte - Festival of World Cultures , No. 3, 1985). In 1987 she received a scholarship for a 6-month writing stay in Vienna . She then traveled a lot in Europe. Her book "Zwei Liebeserzählungen" (1987) was awarded the Malaparte Literature Prize. In 2006, Zhang Jie was the first female author to receive the Mao Dun Prize a second time for her work “Without Words”.

Web links

• Literature by and about Zhang Jie in the catalog of the German National Library
• Zhang Jie on culturebase.net

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