Looking for the uncle

Author: Wen Yajun
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: The author, Wen Yajun, is a highly promising young writer. His life experiences, reflections, emotions, unique talent, and his loyalty to literature—including his extraordinary perceptions of life, regions, and narrative techniques—will attract more readers and scholars to approach him and study him. He has published over 30 middle-length novels and more than 50 short stories, totaling approximately 1.8 million words. His short stories have been reprinted multiple times in publications such as Novel Selection, Monthly Novel, Xinhua Digest, Middle-Length Novel Selection, and Works and Controversies, and have been included in various annual selections of the best short stories. His middle-length novel Bitter Water Tarla and short stories Bread Aroma and Narration in the Wind won first and second prizes in the 3rd, 5th, and 7th Military Art New Works Awards, respectively. Some of his stories have been translated into Japanese. He has published the long novels Sword Westward, Boundless Sea, and Pandora by the Shore, as well as several collections of short stories. He studied at the Lu Xun Academy of Literature.