LIU Heng (刘恒)

LIU Heng
2005 Resident
  • Asia
  • Eastern Asia
  • China
Chinese

LIU Heng / 刘恒. Mr. Liu ’s work exposes society’s bleak side in the fashion of the great writers of the realist tradition. His works are mostly novella-length, the best known of which, Fuxi Fuxi (1987) was adapted into the motion picture Ju Dou. Three novellas were published in English in the volume The Obsessed (Beijing, 1991). His novel, Hei de xue was translated into English as Black Snow (Atlantic Press,1993), and made into an eponymous feature film; Green River Daydreams was published by Grove in 2001. His latest work, adapted for television, is a long novel titled Pinzui zhang damin de xingfu shenghuo (‘The Happy Life of Chatter-box Zhang Damin’). He participates courtesy of the Freeman Foundation.

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  • Congratulations to Enah Johnscott, whose film Half Heaven won three awards at the Cameroon International Film Festival—best film, best director, and best cinematographer.

  • We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

  • Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.

  • Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.

  • Ranjit Hoskote’s speech at the 2024 Goa Literary Festival addresses the current situation in Gaza.

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