Xu Xiaobin

Xu Xiaobin is a contemporary Chinese writer and first-class screenwriter. She was born in Beijing in 1953, with ancestral roots in Jingmen, Hubei, and graduated from the Central Institute of Finance and Banking (now the Central University of Finance and Economics). Primarily a novelist who has also worked as a screenwriter, she is often categorized as a writer of social fiction, and is known for portraying characters' fates and emotional conflicts against realistic backgrounds. Her representative works include Feathered Serpent, Pisces, Dunhuang Dreams, and Princess Deling; Pisces and Killing Time are available on this site. She has received the first Lu Xun Literary Prize and the first Women's Literature Prize, and her works have been translated into more than ten languages and published overseas, giving her a notable presence in contemporary literature and among international readers.