Ye Zhou

Ye Zhou, whose real name is Ye Zhou, was born in Lanzhou, Gansu, in 1966. A contemporary poet and novelist, he currently serves as chairman of the Gansu Provincial Writers Association. His work spans modern poetry, essays, social fiction and historical writing, with 40 titles held in the collection. Novels such as The Dunhuang Chronicle and The Eighteen Beats of Liangzhou are large in scale and grounded in the history and regional culture of northwest China, while books like Going Down the Ladder: How Smart People Communicate and The Art of Thinking address everyday communication and mental training in an accessible, practical tone. In 2014 he won the 6th Lu Xun Literary Prize for My Tent Holds Peace. His writing combines a poet's sensitivity to language with a novelist's patience for narrative, giving both his historical and motivational works a distinctive personal style.