ZHANG Chu

A portrait of Zhang Chu.
2024 Resident
  • Asia
  • Eastern Asia
  • China
Chinese

ZHANG Chu 张楚 (novelist; PRC) is the author of six short story collections, most recently 七根孔雀羽毛 [Seven Peacock Feathers] (2023), 过香河 [Passing Xianghe] (2021), and 夜是怎样黑下来的 [How the Night Fall] (2019). He published his first novel, 云落 [Yun Luo] in June of 2024. Among the awards he has won are the Lu Xun Literature Award. Yu Dafu Fiction Award, Sun Li Literature Award, Lin Jinlan Short Story Award, Gao Xiaosheng Literature Award, and the Chinese Young Writers Award. Three of his books have been adapted for the screen. His participation is made possible by a gift from the Ramon and Victoria Lim Fund. 

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Happening Now

  • In a recent Haaretz piece, Odeh Bisharat describes the efforts of the Arab-Jewish solidarity movement Standing Together to collect food for needy Gazans as well as build a long-term political coalition.

  • Among the upcoming titles at the lively regional CEEOL Press is 1945 and Other Stories., an English translation of Gábor Szántó’s Hungarian original.

  • An excerpt from Lidija Dimkovska’s most recent novel [Personal Identity Number] appears in the July 2024 issue of World Literature Today.

  • The Spring 2024 issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review features an excerpt from Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah’s new novel Onboard the Amsterdam or, the Last Voyage of Ibn Battûta,  surveying the burning topics of migrancy, radicalization, and exile. 
     

  • In an opinion piece for NYTimes, Veronica Raimo plumbs the (shallow) depths of Italian women’s media representation.

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