{{Short description|Chinese writer (born 1984)}} {{family name hatnote|Yan|lang=Chinese}} {{Infobox writer | name = Yan Ge | native_name = 颜歌 | native_name_lang = zh | birth_name = Dai Yuexing | birth_date = {{birth-date and age|December 1984}} | birth_place = Sichuan, China | occupation = Novelist, writer | language = Standard Chinese, Sichuanese, English | nationality = Chinese | alma_mater = Sichuan University | notableworks = ''Our Family'' }} '''Yan Ge''' ({{zh|s=颜歌}}, pinyin: ''Yán Gē'', born December 1984) is the pen name of Chinese writer '''Dai Yuexing''' ({{lang|zh|戴月行}}, pinyin: ''Dài Yuèxíng'').
==Life and career== Yan Ge was born Dai Yuexing in December 1984 in the Pixian district of Chengdu.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Duzan |first=Brigitte |title=Yan Ge 颜歌 |url=http://www.chinese-shortstories.com/Auteurs_de_a_z_Yan_Ge.htm |website=www.chinese-shortstories.com}}</ref> She began writing at the age of ten and her first book was published when she was 17 years old.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=11 February 2022 |title=Chinese writer Yan Ge finds solace in creating literary worlds |url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/writersandcompany/chinese-writer-yan-ge-finds-solace-in-creating-literary-worlds-1.6346350 |website=CBC}}</ref>
Yan completed a PhD in comparative literature at Sichuan University and is the Chair of the China Young Writers Association. Her writing includes substantial amounts of her native Sichuanese, rather than Standard Chinese.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mychinesebooks.com/yan-ge-families-humour-sichuan-spicy-dish/|title=Yan Ge: families, humour, Sichuan, a spicy dish. |date=December 2015 }}</ref> ''People's Literature'' (''Renmin Wenxue'' {{lang|zh|人民文学}}) magazine recently chose her – in a list reminiscent of The New Yorker's '20 under 40' – as one of China's twenty future literary masters. In 2012, she was chosen as Best New Writer by the prestigious Chinese Literature Media Prize ({{lang|zh|华语文学传媒大奖 最佳新人奖}}). In 2011, she was awarded a visiting scholar position at Duke University.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Zhong |first=Na |date=2018-10-09 |title=Writing from In-Between: A Conversation with Yan Ge |url=https://supchina.com/2018/10/09/writing-from-in-between-a-conversation-with-yan-ge/ |access-date=2022-04-26 |website=SupChina |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406185616/https://supchina.com/2018/10/09/writing-from-in-between-a-conversation-with-yan-ge/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Yan was a guest writer at the Crossing Border Festival in The Hague in November 2012, and has since appeared at numerous literary festivals throughout Europe.<ref>{{Cite web |title=China |url=https://dutchculture.nl/en/country/CN |website=Dutchculture | Centre for international cooperation}}</ref> She has lived in Dublin with her husband, Daniel, and their child since 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://paper-republic.org/authors/yan-ge/|title=Yan Ge|first=Eric|last=Abrahamsen|website=Paper Republic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://writingchinese.leeds.ac.uk/book-club/yan-ge-%e9%a2%9c%e6%ad%8c-2/|title=November 2014: Yan Ge 颜歌 : The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing|website=writingchinese.leeds.ac.uk}}</ref>
Yan has been writing in English in addition to Mandarin and Sichuanese. Her first English book is a 2023 short story collection ''Elsewhere: stories''.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Guardian2023-07-12">{{Cite news |last=Leu |first=Chelsea |date=2023-07-12 |title=Elsewhere by Yan Ge review – a visceral English debut |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/12/elsewhere-by-yan-ge-review-a-visceral-english-debut |access-date=2023-10-22 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Reviewer Chelsea Leu wrote {{blockquote|Yan Ge’s English debut is preoccupied with language, its failures, and its relationship to human emotions and the raw reality – the 'food' – of life. ... These stories map out the distance between the head and the gut – the way language can fail to convey the deepest, most visceral facts of life."<ref name="Guardian2023-07-12"/>}} Reviewer Sindya Bhanoo wrote that the stories "explore the power of language across the Chinese diaspora to either bring people together or push them apart."<ref name="NYT2023-09-15">{{Cite news |last=Bhanoo |first=Sindya |date=2023-09-15 |title=In Three New Story Collections, Much Is Left Unsaid |work=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/books/review/i-hear-youre-rich-diane-williams-elsewhere-yan-ge-lets-go-lets-go-lets-go-cleo-qian.html |access-date=2023-10-22}}</ref>
==Awards== * 2003 - Chinese Literature Media Award<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |title=Yan Ge: A Budding Author - All China Women's Federation |url=http://www.womenofchina.cn/html/people/writers/154727-1.htm |website=www.womenofchina.cn}}{{dead link|date=September 2023}}</ref> * 2002 - 1st prize, New Concept Writing Competition<ref name="auto"/> * 2001 - Honored as one of China's Top 10 Young Fiction Writers by the Lu Xun Literature School of the China Writers Association
==Publications== * {{lang|zh|五月女王}} ''May Queen'', 2008 - novel * {{lang|zh|钟腻哥}} ''Sissy Zhong'' - short story (translated by Nicky Harman)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://paper-republic.org/works/zhong-nige/|title=Zhong Nige|first=Eric|last=Abrahamsen|website=Paper Republic}}</ref> * {{lang|zh|白马}} ''White Horse'' - novella (translated by Nicky Harman)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hoperoadpublishing.com/white-horse|title=White Horse - HopeRoad Publishing|website=www.hoperoadpublishing.com}}</ref> * {{lang|zh|照妖镜}} ''Demon-Reflecting Mirror''- novella<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://chinesebooksforyoungreaders.wordpress.com/2016/11/19/reflecting-teenagers-on-a-sichuanese-mirror-yan-ge-and-her-stories-from-pingle-township/|title=20. Reflecting Teenagers on a Sichuanese Mirror: Yan Ge and her stories from Pingle Township|date=November 19, 2016}}</ref> * {{lang|zh|平乐镇伤心故事集}} ''Sad Stories of Pingle Township'' (5 stories including ''White Horse'' and ''Demon-Reflecting Mirror'').<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://paper-republic.org/helenwang/reflecting-teenagers-on-a-sichuanese-mirror-yan-ge-and-her-stories-from-pingle-township/|title=Reflecting Teenagers on a Sichuanese Mirror: Yan Ge and her stories from Pingle Township|first=Eric|last=Abrahamsen|website=Paper Republic |date=19 November 2016 }}</ref> * {{lang|zh|我们家}} ''Our Family'', 2013. **English translation: ''The Chilli Bean Paste Clan'', translated by Nicky Harman, Balestier Press, 2018; also German and French editions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.balestier.com/books/literature/the-chilli-bean-paste-clan/|title=The Chilli Bean Paste Clan}}</ref> *{{lang|zh|异兽志}} ''Record of Strange Beasts'', 2006. **English translation: ''Strange Beasts of China'', translated by Jeremy Tiang, Melville House Publishing, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://paper-republic.org/authors/yan-ge/|title=Yan Ge|last=Abrahamsen|first=Eric|website=Paper Republic|language=en|access-date=2019-12-10}}</ref> * ''Elsewhere: stories'', 2023 - short stories. Scribner (US) and Faber (UK) {{isbn|978-1-9821-9848-0}} (published in English)
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