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One of China’s foremost modern writers, and virtually self-taught. As a boy, he often hid his school books in a temple and played truant, preferring to learn from ‘the big book’ of the real world.
His earliest, most prolific, and arguably his finest work was produced in the 1920s and ’30s. Sadly his writing was completely compromised (he never wrote another major work of fiction after 1949) during the Mao years. Although he was ‘rediscovered’ in the ’80s, culminating in massive popularity when Taiwan lifted its ban on mainland writers in 1987, his later work mainly comprised reworkings and collections of his earlier stories.
Shen remains probably the only Chinese author to have ever been seriously considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Among Shen’s works in English translation are:
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