Biography of the author of Moon Traces

Jia Pingwa (1952- ), formerly known as Jia Pingwa, is a native of Danfeng County, Shangluo City, Shaanxi Province. After graduating from the Chinese Department of Northwestern University, he served as literary editor of the Shaanxi People's Publishing House and editor of the monthly literary magazine Chang'an. Now he is the chairman of Shaanxi Writers' Association, the chairman of Xi'an Literature Federation, the dean of the College of Humanities of Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, and the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Beautiful Writings".

Jia Pingwa is one of China's leading literary figures and literary wizards in the contemporary literary world. He is one of the most rebellious, creative, and influential writers of world significance in contemporary China, and also one of the few famous literary figures in contemporary China who can enter the annals of Chinese and world literature.

He began to publish his works in 1973, and has been working professionally since 1982, with more than 300 editions of his works published so far. He is the author of long novels such as Shangzhou, Pregnancy, Strolling in the Mountain, Oil Moon, Floating, Waste City, White Night, Tumen, Sickness Phase Report, Nostalgia for Wolves, Qinqiang, and Happiness, etc.; short and middle grade novels such as Notes on the Mountain, Pre-Moon, Lunar Month - First Month, Tengu, Kuro, Meidanchi, Dumpling House, and The Artist Han Qixiang, etc.; and essays such as Moon Traces, and The Artist Han Qixiang.

Jia Jie is the author of the following books: Moon Traces, Heart Traces, Traces of Love, Going to Shandong, Three Records of Shangzhou, Speaking, and Sitting Buddha; and a collection of poems, Blanks, and Collected Essays of Ping'au.

Jia Pingwa's works mainly accurately and profoundly express, from a unique perspective, the painful and tragic social transformation of China in the modernization process over the past thirty years from the end of the twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century, and not only completely restore and reproduce the realities of the real-life people's existence, but also penetrate into the world of the contemporary Chinese people's hearts in a kind of ecological narrative, highlighting the Chinese nation's suffering in the global context of modernization. In an original narrative, he penetrates into the spiritual world of contemporary Chinese people, highlighting the unprecedented embarrassment of the Chinese nation in the global context of modernization. He has made outstanding contributions to the nationalization of Chinese literature and to the development of Chinese literature towards the world by expressing the life and emotions of modern Chinese people in a true way of traditional Chinese beauty.

Jia Pingwa's literary works are extremely imaginative, with true feelings in the commonplace, compassion in the plain, far-reaching sentiments, and rich writing power, which not only have a vast readership in China, but also transcend national boundaries, and are widely recognized by experts, scholars, and readers of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Especially in the nationalization of literary language, he has created a new tradition while inheriting the tradition, and has made great achievements in the practice of writing in the new Chinese language.

Jia Pingwa's works have been translated into English, French, German, Russian, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean and other languages in more than twenty countries around the world. Internationally, he has won awards such as the Mobil Pegasus Literary Award ("Floating" 1987), the Fermina Literary Award ("Waste City" 1997), and the Honorary Prize for Literature and Art of France*** and the United States (2003); domestically, he has won the First National Award of Excellence for Short Stories ("Full Moon" 1978), the Third National Award of Excellence for Medium Stories ("Waxing Month, Righteous Month" 1984), and the First National Award of Excellence for Prose (Collection). National Outstanding Prose (Collection) Award ("Traces of Love" 1989), the Third Lu Xun Literature Prize ("Jia Pingwa's Selected Long Prose" 2005), and the Fourth Chinese Literature Media Award (2005), the Dream of Red Mansions Award for World Chinese Long Stories ("Qinqiang" 2006), and the Seventh Mao Dun Literature Prize (Qinqiang" 2008).