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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Yan_Ge > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Yan_Ge.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Ge > Source revision: 1342789521 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Chinese writer (born 1984)}} {{family name hatnote|[Yan](/source/Yan_(surname))|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](/source/Sichuan), China | occupation = Novelist, writer | language = [Standard Chinese](/source/Standard_Chinese), [Sichuanese](/source/Sichuanese_language), [English](/source/English_language) | nationality = Chinese | alma_mater = [Sichuan University](/source/Sichuan_University) | notableworks = ''Our Family'' }} '''Yan Ge''' ({{zh|s=颜歌}}, [pinyin](/source/pinyin): ''Yán Gē'', born December 1984) is the pen name of Chinese writer '''Dai Yuexing''' ({{lang|zh|戴月行}}, [pinyin](/source/pinyin): ''Dài Yuèxíng''). ==Life and career== Yan Ge was born Dai Yuexing in December 1984 in the [Pixian district](/source/Pixian) of [Chengdu](/source/Chengdu).{{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}} She began writing at the age of ten and her first book was published when she was 17 years old.{{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](/source/Canadian_Broadcasting_Company)}} Yan completed a [PhD](/source/PhD) in [comparative literature](/source/comparative_literature) at [Sichuan University](/source/Sichuan_University) and is the Chair of the China Young Writers Association. Her writing includes substantial amounts of her native [Sichuanese](/source/Sichuanese_language), rather than [Standard Chinese](/source/Standard_Chinese).{{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 }} ''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](/source/Duke_University).{{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 }} Yan was a guest writer at the [Crossing Border Festival](/source/Crossing_Border_Festival) in [The Hague](/source/The_Hague) in November 2012, and has since appeared at numerous literary festivals throughout Europe.{{Cite web |title=China |url=https://dutchculture.nl/en/country/CN |website=Dutchculture | Centre for international cooperation}} She has lived in Dublin with her husband, Daniel, and their child since 2015.{{Cite web|url=https://paper-republic.org/authors/yan-ge/|title=Yan Ge|first=Eric|last=Abrahamsen|website=Paper Republic}}{{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}} Yan has been writing in English in addition to Mandarin and Sichuanese. Her first English book is a 2023 short story collection ''Elsewhere: stories''.{{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}} 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."}} 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."{{Cite news |last=Bhanoo |first=Sindya |date=2023-09-15 |title=In Three New Story Collections, Much Is Left Unsaid |work=[New York Times](/source/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}} ==Awards== * 2003 - Chinese Literature Media Award{{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}} * 2002 - 1st prize, [New Concept Writing Competition](/source/New_Concept_Writing_Competition) * 2001 - Honored as one of China's Top 10 Young Fiction Writers by the [Lu Xun](/source/Lu_Xun) Literature School of the [China Writers Association](/source/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](/source/Nicky_Harman)){{Cite web|url=https://paper-republic.org/works/zhong-nige/|title=Zhong Nige|first=Eric|last=Abrahamsen|website=Paper Republic}} * {{lang|zh|白马}} ''White Horse'' - novella (translated by [Nicky Harman](/source/Nicky_Harman)){{Cite web|url=https://www.hoperoadpublishing.com/white-horse|title=White Horse - HopeRoad Publishing|website=www.hoperoadpublishing.com}} * {{lang|zh|照妖镜}} ''Demon-Reflecting Mirror''- novella{{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}} * {{lang|zh|平乐镇伤心故事集}} ''Sad Stories of Pingle Township'' (5 stories including ''White Horse'' and ''Demon-Reflecting Mirror'').{{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 }} * {{lang|zh|我们家}} ''Our Family'', 2013. **English translation: ''The Chilli Bean Paste Clan'', translated by [Nicky Harman](/source/Nicky_Harman), Balestier Press, 2018; also German and French editions.{{Cite web|url=https://www.balestier.com/books/literature/the-chilli-bean-paste-clan/|title=The Chilli Bean Paste Clan}} *{{lang|zh|异兽志}} ''Record of Strange Beasts'', 2006. **English translation: ''[Strange Beasts of China](/source/Strange_Beasts_of_China)'', translated by [Jeremy Tiang](/source/Jeremy_Tiang), Melville House Publishing, 2021.{{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}} * ''Elsewhere: stories'', 2023 - short stories. Scribner (US) and Faber (UK) {{isbn|978-1-9821-9848-0}} (published in English) ==References== {{Reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Yan, Ge}} Category:1984 births Category:Living people Category:21st-century Chinese novelists Category:21st-century Chinese short story writers Category:21st-century pseudonymous women writers Category:21st-century pseudonymous writers Category:Short story writers from Sichuan Category:Chinese women short story writers Category:Chinese women novelists Category:Chinese expatriates in Ireland Category:Sichuanese Category:Sichuan University alumni Category:Chinese science fiction writers Category:Women science fiction and fantasy writers Category:Chinese fantasy writers Category:Writers from Chengdu --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Yan Ge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Ge) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Ge?action=history)). 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