Shen Rong (Chinese: 谌容; pinyin: Shèn Róng; 1936 – 4 February 2024) was a Chinese writer.[1] Her name also appears as Chen Rong.[2]
Biography
editShen was born Shen Derong (Chinese: 谌德容)[3] in Hankou, Hubei. Because of the political unrest of the time, her family moved frequently, finally settling in Chongqing. She worked as an assistant at a publishing house and studied Russian in Beijing.[1] She then worked as a translator at a radio station but was released in 1963 due to illness. In 1973, she went to live with a peasant family in Shanxi.[4]
Shen began writing in the 1970s, producing the novel The Eternal Spring (Yongyuan shi chuntian). Her story At Middle Age (Ren dao zhongnian) (1980)[4] won a literary award and was made into a movie, catapulting her into the spotlight. In 1991, she published At Old Age (Rendao Iaonian).[1]
In 1983, she wrote the essay Novels strangled in the cradle: My Senseless Literary Battles, which described her difficulties as a writer living through radical shifts in her society's ideology.[2]
Shen died on 4 February 2024, at the age of 88.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c Ying, Li-hua (2009). Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature. Scarecrow Press. pp. 166–67. ISBN 978-0810870819.
- ^ a b Martin, Helmut; Kinkley, Jeffrey C; Ba, Jin (1992). Modern Chinese Writers: Self-portrayals. M.E. Sharpe. p. 61. ISBN 0873328175.
- ^ Dillon, Michael (1998). China: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary. Psychology Press. p. 46. ISBN 0700704396.
- ^ a b Miller, Jane Eldridge (2002). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. Psychology Press. pp. 296–97. ISBN 9780415159814.
- ^ 《人到中年》作者谌容去世，享年88岁 (in Chinese)
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