An Ning (Wang Ping)

An Ning, whose real name is Wang Ping, was born in Tai'an, Shandong, in 1981. She is a writer, a professor at Inner Mongolia University, and vice chair of the Inner Mongolia Writers Association. She has published more than thirty works, including The Rural Life We Are Losing, Rural Idlers, Records of Migration, The Silent World, and All Things in Love, and has received the Bing Xin Prose Award, the Ding Ling Literature Award, and the Chinese Young Writers Award. Her writing is mainly prose, with some literary appreciation and translation. Her style is plain and delicate, focusing on rural memory, nature, and everyday emotions, forming a distinct path in contemporary prose. Thirty-two of her works are included here, spanning foreign literature, literary appreciation, world history, inspirational growth, and prose miscellany, showing a vision not confined to a single field.