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Liu Zhenyun (born May 1958) is a Chinese novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his novel Someone to Talk To (awarded the 2011 Mao Dun Literature Prize ) as well as his involvement with the many film adaptions of his books.
Liu Zhenyun, one of China’s best-known authors and screenwriters, was born in 1958 in Yanjin County, Henan Province, where he grew up in a rural village.
Liu Zhenyun (born [May], 1958), born in Yanjin, Henan Province, China, is a Chinese writer. In 1973 Liu Zhenyun joined the PLA and spent five years in the Gobi desert. In 1978, he took the gaokao and got the highest score in Henan Province admitted into the prestigious Peking University.
His award-winning short stories have explored life in China's state-owned companies and bureacratic offices, but his most celebrated novel, My Name is Liu Yuejin, tells the story of a migrant worker who has his bag (containing all his worldly possessions) stolen in Beijing.
Jul 29, 2019 · Liu, born in 1958 in Yanjin county in Henan province, graduated from Peking University's Department of Chinese Language and Literature. Typical of established Chinese writers born in the 1950s, his works have been frequently adapted into films, with many of them directed by Feng Xiaogang.
Originally published in China in 2009 and appearing in English for the first time, Liu Zhenyun’s award-winning Someone to Talk To highlights the contours of everyday life in pre- and post-Mao China, where regular people struggle to make a living and establish homes and families.
Beginning in 1968 in the protagonist’s rural hometown, Liu’s fast-paced, contemporary tale takes us into the complicated family and social relationships of Yan Shouyi, telling a story of friendship, love and betrayal.
