Can Xue, Author, Canxue, Author, Xue Can, Author Northwestern University Press $19 (173p) ISBN 978-0-8101-0831-8 Chinese Can Xue's first book to appear in English radically departs from the realism ...

Susan Sontag once said if China has one possibility of a Nobel laureate, it is Can Xue, the avant-garde fiction writer and literary critic regarded by many scholars as one of the most experimental ...

Editor's Note: On the newly-published odds list for the 2019 Nobel Prize in literature, Chinese writer Can Xue is ranked third, one place higher than Haruki Murakami, a best-selling contemporary ...

Deng Xiaohua — the person behind the pseudonym Can Xue — was born in 1953. Her father was persecuted following 1957’s anti-rightist movement, and she could not continue her studies beyond elementary ...

The Yale Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) will host two public events with acclaimed Chinese novelist, critic and short-story writer Can Xue later this month: a reading from her work at 5 p.m. on April ...

Can Xue (Dialogues in Paradise) is a Chinese writer in her 50s whose pen name means "dirty snow that refuses to melt." In this enigmatic collection, she writes in the artless prose of fairy tales and ...

Chinese avant-garde writer Can Xue recounts her journey from working as a ‘barefoot doctor’, workshop employee and tailor in 1980s China to being a writer, and recalls how she fell in love with ...

Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie are also among those highly tipped for the prize, announced on Thursday Can Xue, Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie are among the ...

She has been tipped by bookies as a front runner to win this year’s Nobel Prize for literature, but writer Can Xue is barely known in her own country. Hunan-based news website Rednet.cn reported on ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Last Lover opens in a provincial town located in an unspecified western nation known as “Country A”. We are ...