Yu Hua

Yu Hua (; born 3 April, 1960) is a Chinese novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is widely considered one of the greatest living authors in China.

Shortly after his debut as a fiction writer in 1983, his first breakthrough came in 1987, when he released the short story "On the Road at Age Eighteen". Yu Hua was regarded as a promising avant-garde or post-New Wave writer. Many critics also regard him as a champion for Chinese meta-fictional or postmodernist writing. His novels ''To Live'' (1993) and ''Chronicle of a Blood Merchant'' (1995) were widely acclaimed. Other works like ''Brothers'' (2005–06) received mixed reviews domestically, but positive reviews abroad.

Yu Hua has written five novels, six collections of stories, and three collections of essays, which have collectively sold nine million copies and have been translated into over 20 languages. Provided by Wikipedia