Li Guowen Author

Li Guowen was born in Shanghai in 1930 and graduated from the Nanjing School of Dramatic Arts in 1949. He joined the People's Liberation Army in 1950 at the outbreak of the Korean War, serving as a writer. After returning to China, he published his first work of fiction in 1957, but was subsequently accused of being a rightist and made to work as a construction labourer. He didn't resume writing until after the Cultural Revolution had ended in the 1970s, and has since published many works of fiction, as well as poems and essays. Spring in Winter was published in 1981, and won the prestigious Mao Dun Literature Prize the following year.