About the author

Sun Pin is a contemporary Chinese fiction writer whose work focuses on lived experience and the complex terrain of human nature; public information about her remains limited. Nine of her works are included in the collection, spanning novellas and boxed sets. Representative titles include On the Wasteland, The Mermaid at the Center of the Water: Selected Novellas (Harvest Five-Year Collection 2018–2022), Yesterday's Ark, Pain, The Sailor Bound for Australia, Crack, the three-volume "Sun Pin Pain Trilogy" (Pain, Salt, Crack), and The Covenant of the Berrya. These works are often classified as social fiction and classic works, suggesting that her writing starts from concrete situations and, within the novella form, explores her characters' emotions and fates under the pressure of reality in a steady, pain-inflected style. Available materials are insufficient to confirm biographical details; readers may approach her narrative orientation and thematic concerns through the works listed above.

Written (9)

Yesterday's Ark cover
Rating 4.1
Yesterday's Ark 孙频 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 The narrative of Yesterday's Ark settles on "a long, narrow alley slowly emptying into the sky," and this alley is Sun Pin's most primal, most rudimen…
Baihua Novella Series: The Kerria Promise cover
Rating 3.8
Baihua Novella Series: The Kerria Promise 孙频 Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 The Pact of Kerria was first published in Zhongshan, No. 4, 2022. Kerria, also known as tangdi or changdi, belongs to the rose family and blooms in la…
On the Wasteland; The Mermaid in the Middle of the Water · Novella Volume (Harvest Five-Year Collection 2018-2022) cover
Rating 4.2
On the Wasteland; The Mermaid in the Middle of the Water · Novella Volume (Harvest Five-Year Collection 2018-2022) 索南才让 / 孙频 / 《收获》编辑部 People's Literature Publishing House · 2025 This collection of novellas by contemporary Chinese writers brings together seven works published in Harvest (Shouhuo) magazine between 2018 and 2022,…
The Sailor Bound for Australia cover
Rating 3.9
The Sailor Bound for Australia 孙频 Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 Part of the Seventh Series of the New Century Writers Collection, this volume gathers representative novellas and short stories by the young writer Su…
New Cloth Tiger Novella Collection (10-Volume Set): Experiencing the Power of Realist Literature cover
Rating 3.9
New Cloth Tiger Novella Collection (10-Volume Set): Experiencing the Power of Realist Literature 戴来 / 金仁顺 / 孙频 Chunfeng Literature and Art Publishing House · 2020 Readers familiar with contemporary literature will surely know the celebrated "Bu Laohu Series" published by Chunfeng Literature and Art Publishing Ho…
Sun Pin's Trilogy of Pain (Pain + Salt + Crack), 3-Volume Set cover
Rating 3.9
Sun Pin's Trilogy of Pain (Pain + Salt + Crack), 3-Volume Set 孙频 · 2019 Pain: This is a collection of five novellas. All five attempt to dig into the deepest, most painful place in the human psyche and body, and then magni…
Fracture cover
Rating 3.9
Fracture 孙频 · 2018 A post-80s writer championed by such renowned authors as Yan Lianke and Su Tong. Sun Pin has published widely in journals including Harvest, People's …
Pain cover
Rating 4.0
Pain 孙频 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2017 This is a collection of five novellas. Each of the five stories attempts to dig into the deepest, most painful place in the human psyche and body, and…
Salt cover
Rating 3.8
Salt 孙频 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2017 This collection brings together six of Sun Pin's finest novellas from the past decade. These stories focus on the struggles of those at the bottom of …

Publishers

People's Literature Publishing HouseBeijing United Publishing Co., Ltd.Chunfeng Literature and Art Publishing HouseJiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing HouseBaihua Literature and Art Publishing HouseYangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House