Lu Yuan

Lu Yuan was born in Nanning, Guangxi, in 1980. A member of the Zhuang ethnic group, he graduated from Renmin University of China with a master's degree in economics and now lives in Beijing. He is a member of the China Writers Association and a associate editor. According to publicly available information, his work spans both fiction and translation: he is the author of novels including Ancestral Love, Fan Huhu's Fantastic Summer, Childhood Beast and Annals of Yingbo, as well as story collections such as There Are Lush Bamboos in the Southern Wilds and The Great Moon and Other Stories, and he has translated works by Bruno Schulz and Melville. Six of his works are included in the collection, commonly classified under foreign literature, social fiction and science fiction. His writing moves between realistic concern and strange imagination, with a carefully wrought style and a strong sense of literary experimentation.