My 20th Century (collected Works of Ning Ken)
by Rather
About This Novel
"Contemporary Literary Assassin" Ning Ken's 40th anniversary commemorative edition, one of the 2018 "Ning Ken Collected Works" series. The writer who won the Lao She Literature Prize twice would rather work on his works. The book is both unbridled, delicate and affectionate, with a broad range of knowledge. The narrative text, which is rooted in Beijing dialect, is smart, majestic and accurate. "My 20th Century" is a collection of Ning Ken's essays, which is a collection of the writer's prose and essays. The collection is divided into three volumes. The first volume "Beijing: City and Years" mainly uses the writer's own growth experience as a clue to describe the growth trajectory of the generation born in the 1950s. The second volume "Walkers" mainly contains the words written by the writer while traveling around the world. The third volume of "Portraits" is the writer's recollections of his interactions with his mentors and friends in the literary world. Ning Ken's prose is both unbridled, delicate and affectionate, with a broad range of knowledge, and his narrative text rooted in Beijing dialect is lively, accurate and expressive. Ning Ken, a Beijinger. Novelist and essayist, his main works include the novels "Heaven·Zang", "The Masked City", "Three Trios", "The Door of Silence" and "The Crater". Born in Beijing in 1959, his original name was Ning Minqing and his ancestral home was Ningzhuang, Hejian County, Hebei Province. Graduated from the Chinese Department of the Second Branch of Beijing Normal University in 1983. In 1982, he published his debut poem "Snow Dream" at "Grudge" in Shanghai. He lived in Tibet from 1984 to 1986 and wrote a series of prose works such as "Sky Lake", "Tibetan Song" and "The Silent Shore", making him one of the representatives of China's "new prose" movement. He is the author of essay collections "Speak, Tibet", "Beijing: City and Years", "My 20th Century" and "The Pipe of Thought". There are also short and medium story collections "Words and Objects" and "Vigram", and the non-fiction work "Notes on Zhongguancun". He is currently a member of the 9th National Committee of the Chinese Writers Association and the executive deputy editor-in-chief of "October" magazine. He has won the Lao She Literary Award for Novel twice, the first Shi Naian Literary Award, the 4th "People's Literature" Biennial Novel Award, the Beijing Literary Art Award, the overall champion of the 2nd "Contemporary" Literary Rally in 2001, the first Sun Li Prose Award Biennial Award, the first Hong Kong "Dream of Red Mansions Award" recommendation award, and the first American Newman Literary Award nomination. Selected as one of the top ten novels of Asia Weekly in 2014 and one of the best Chinese books in 2017, with works translated into English, French, Italian, and Czech.
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