Liu Guoqiang

Liu Guoqiang, male, of the Manchu ethnic group, was born in March 1957 in Xifeng, Liaoning. He is a member of the China Writers Association, currently serves as vice president of the Chinese Biographical Literature Society and president of the Liaoning Biographical Literature Society, and is a leading figure in Liaoning's reportage writing. His work spans reportage, novels and essays, with more than twenty books including Japanese War Orphans, New Songs of Lop Nur, Motherland Above All and Nose. He has received the National Minority Literature Creation Horse Award, the Chinese Biographical Literature Award and the Sun Li Essay First Prize. Four of his works are held in the collection, covering culture, medicine and documentary literature, including Mulan on the Sea, Practical Internal Medicine Diagnosis and Treatment, The Backbone of Yan and Zhao and That Patch of Sunlight, which reflect his attention to reality and the diversity of his subjects.