Qiao Ye

Qiao Ye, born in 1972 in Xiuwu, Henan, under the real name Li Qiaoyan, is a contemporary Chinese writer. She is a professional writer at the Beijing Lao She Literary Academy and vice chair of the Beijing Writers Association. Her works include The Slowest Thing Is Living, The Confession, and Bao Shui; she received the Lu Xun Literary Prize in 2010 and the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2023 for Bao Shui, and her writing has been translated into several languages. Her work spans essays and miscellaneous prose, modern romance, and social fiction. Three of her books are carried here: Which Mountain the Sun Fell On (When We Were Children), She Was Once an Angel, and Out of Line. Her subjects move from personal memory and emotional writing to observations of social reality, with delicate prose that attends closely to inner life and everyday detail.