Bi Feiyu was born in a rural area of Jiangsu province in January 1964. He studied Chinese literature at Yangzhou Normal University from 1983 to 1987 and, soon after graduation, moved to Nanjing where he worked as a teacher at Nanjing Normal College of Special Education for five years. In 1992 he became a journalist at The Nanjing Daily and worked there for six years. Now a renowned writer and a Vice President of the Writers' Association of Jiangsu Province, he is currently an editor for a literary magazine, Yu Hua (Rain Flower).
His writing career started in the 1980s and it was his poems which first got him noticed. Described in China as "the best male writer in depicting women's psychology", he is now the author of over 50 short stories, 10 medium-length novels and 4 full-length novels. An anthology (4 volumes) and a full collection (7 volumes) of his works were published in 2004 and 2008. His full-length novels include Shanghai Triad, The Summer and The Winter, The Plain, and Tui Na.(Chinese Massage).
Shanghai Triad was adapted into a film, directed by the internationally acclaimed Chinese film director Zhang Yimou. Tsing Y (The Moon Opera) was adapted into a popular TV series.
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Awards and Honours
Lactating Women (Short story) - the first Lu Xun Literature Prize (the most distinctive award for short and medium length novels in China) (1997)
The first Chinese Novel Academy Award (2003)
The tenth Zhuang Zhong Literature Prize (2004)
Three Sisters (Medium-length novels) - the fourth Lu Xun Literature Prize (2005)
In addition to these, Bi Feiyu has won more than 20 various literature awards.
Prizes for Chinese Massage(Tui Na)
Since it's publication in 2008, Chinese Massage has swept almost all the major literature awards in China including:
China Biennial Fiction Award (2008)
People's Literature Award (2008)
Sina.com Novelist of the Year (2008)
Top 10 Books in 2008, selected by 32 main stream media nation wide (2009)
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