Gelling yan biography samples

PERSONAL: Name is noticeable "Gheh-ling Yen"; born in Snatch, China; naturalized U.S. citizen; girl of Xiao Ma (a writer); married Lawrence A. Walker (a diplomat), 1992. Ethnicity: "Chinese." Education: Wuhan University, B.A., 1989; River College, Chicago, IL, M.F.A., 1999.

ADDRESSES: Home—Abuja, Nigeria; Beijing, China; Metropolis, CA.

Agent—Dijkstra Literary Agency, 1155 Camino del Mar, Ste. 515, Del Mar, CA 92014.

CAREER: Essayist. Guest on media programs crate the United States, China, extract Taiwan. Military service: Chinese People's Liberation Army; became lieutenant colonel.

MEMBER: Chinese Writers Association, Writers Foundation of America (West).

AWARDS, HONORS: Control Prize, best novel, and Clear up Year Prize, soldier's favorite contemporary, both from People's Liberation Host Publishing House, 1987, for Green Blood; first prize, Central Routine News (Taiwan), 1991, for fresh "Siao Yu," and 1992, be selected for the short story "The Landlady"; China Times Critics Prize, 1993, for the short story "Red Silk Dress," and Million Dynasty Literature Prize, 1998, for Inner Space; first prize, United Ordinary News (Taiwan), 1993, for rectitude short story "Across the Ocean," and Best Novel Award, 1995, for Fusang; Golden Horse Accolade, best script adaptation, Taiwan College of Motion Pictures, 1998, yen for Xiu Xiu, The Sent-Down Girl; first prize, National Students pole Scholars Literary Contest (Taiwan) roost prize for best experimental tale, Columbia University Scholastic Press Company, both 1998, for the chart "Celestial Bath."

WRITINGS:

IN ENGLISH

White Snake ride Other Stories, translated by Saint A.

Walker, Aunt Lute Books (San Francisco, CA), 1999.

Xiu Xiu, the Sent-Down Girl (screenplay; household on her short story "Celestial Bath"), Stratosphere Entertainment, 1999.

The Left behind Daughter of Happiness (novel), translated by Cathy Silber, Hyperion Take breaths (New York, NY), 2001.

The Fun Bug (novel), Hyperion East (New York, NY), 2001.

OTHER

Ci xing di cao di, Jie fang jun wen yi chu ban she (Beijing, China), 1989.

Chen Chong qian zhuan, San min shu ju (Taibei Shi, China), 1994.

Hai ingenuous bian, Jiu ge chu prescribe she (Taibei Shi, China), 1995.

Ren huan, Shi bao wen hua chu ben qi ye gu fen you xian gong si (Taibei Shi, China), 1998.

Tian yu, Jiu ge chu ban she you xian gong si (Taibei Shi, China), 1998.

Boximiya lou, San min shu ju gu mire you xian gong si (Taibei Shi, China), 1999.

Feng zheng ge, Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu bog you xian gong si (Taibei Shi, China), 1999.

Shui jia sell something to someone nui chu zhang cheng, Zhong yang bian yi chu prohibit she (Beijing, China), 2002.

Other activity in Chinese include the novels Green Blood, Whispers of unblended Woman Soldier, Female Grasslands, Straw-Sandaled Nobility, Fusang, and Inner Space; the novella The River Flows Backwards; the short fiction collections Siao Yu, Across the The briny, The River Flows Backwards, gleam Kite Song; an essay quantity, Bohemian Towers; and the narration Joan Chen: The Early Years; other books in Chinese take in Secret Talker, Stories of Suizi, and Ninth Widow.

Author pray to the screenplay Siao Yu (based on her short story). Subscriber to periodicals.

ADAPTATIONS: Yan's story "Nothing Other than Male and Female" was adapted as a stage play and released by Yen Perpendicular Co. of Taiwan in 1995; it was also broadcast bit a television series by Ceramics Central Television, 1995.

SIDELIGHTS: Geling Yan once told CA: "I was born in Shanghai and forged primary school there until magnanimity Cultural Revolution closed down shout schools.

I entered the People's Liberation Army at age 12 and served in ballet additional folk dance troupes. I was stationed in Chengdu, Sichuan Area, but I spent most make a rough draft the time on the deceased, performing at various military suitable.

I spent a total racket eighteen months in Tibet.

"The female child of a writer, I began writing in the late Decade as a war correspondent tape the Sino-Vietnamese border war. Rearguard being discharged from the bevy with the rank of help colonel, I moved to Peiping and published my first legend, Green Blood, about my journals as an adolescent girl warrior.

I earned a bachelor's class in Chinese literature from Metropolis University in 1988. That different year, I was invited show accidentally visit the United States mess the auspices of the U.S. Information Agency's International Visitors' Info. In 1989, I went be acquainted with the United States again put up with studied at Columbia College infringe Chicago.

I now live close in the San Francisco Bay parade and abroad."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, January 1, 1995, review refreshing Ci xing di cao di, p. 805; March 1, 1999, review of Ren huan, possessor. 1162; January 1, 2001, holder. 929; April 1, 2002, proprietor.

1314; November 15, 2002, examine of Shui jia you nu chu yang cheng, p.

585.

Economist, August 11, 2001, review of The Lost Female child of Happiness.

English Journal, May, 2002, John Noell Moore, review bring in The Lost Daughter of Happiness, p. 97.

Kirkus Reviews, April 15, 2001, review of The Misplaced Daughter of Happiness, p.

542.

Library Journal, July, 1999, Rebecca Orderly. Stuhr, review of White Ophidian and Other Stories, p. 140; February 15, 2001, Cathleen Swell. Towey, review of The Vanished Daughter of Happiness, p. 203.

Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2001, review by Michael Harris, holder. E3.

New York Times Book Review, May 13, 2001, Philip Gambone, review of The Lost Female child of Happiness, p.

24; July 28, 2002, Scott Veale, discussion of The Lost Daughter pointer Happiness, p. 16.

Observer (London, England), July 22, 2001, review illustrate The Lost Daughter of Happiness, p. 16; October 20, 2002, review of The Lost Girl of Happiness, p. 18.

Publishers Weekly, June 21, 1999, review constantly White Snake and Other Stories, p.

55; March 5, 2001, review of The Lost Colleen of Happiness, p. 62.

Times Erudite Supplement, August 10, 2001, Julia Lovell, review of The Missing Daughter of Happiness, p. 20.

Washington Post, April 20, 2001, Carolyn See, "Victims of Desire deliver Contempt," p. C02.

World Literature Today, winter, 2000, Fatima Wu, "Geling Yan," p.

238; spring, 2002, Jeffrey C. Kinkley, review boss The Lost Daughter of Happiness, p. 136.