Can Xue, Author, Canxue, Author, Xue Can, Author Northwestern University Press $19 (173p) ISBN 978-0-8101-0831-8 Chinese Can Xue's first book to appear in English radically departs from the realism ...

Susan Sontag once said if China has one possibility of a Nobel laureate, it is Can Xue, the avant-garde fiction writer and literary critic regarded by many scholars as one of the most experimental ...

Editor's Note: On the newly-published odds list for the 2019 Nobel Prize in literature, Chinese writer Can Xue is ranked third, one place higher than Haruki Murakami, a best-selling contemporary ...

The Yale Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) will host two public events with acclaimed Chinese novelist, critic and short-story writer Can Xue later this month: a reading from her work at 5 p.m. on April ...

Deng Xiaohua — the person behind the pseudonym Can Xue — was born in 1953. Her father was persecuted following 1957’s anti-rightist movement, and she could not continue her studies beyond elementary ...

Chinese avant-garde writer Can Xue recounts her journey from working as a ‘barefoot doctor’, workshop employee and tailor in 1980s China to being a writer, and recalls how she fell in love with ...

The Chinese and Hungarian writers are tied with odds of 10/1 – while Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie are also in the running Can Xue, László Krasznahorkai, Haruki Murakami, ...

She has been tipped by bookies as a front runner to win this year’s Nobel Prize for literature, but writer Can Xue is barely known in her own country. Hunan-based news website Rednet.cn reported on ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Last Lover opens in a provincial town located in an unspecified western nation known as “Country A”. We are ...

Chinese writer Can Xue and Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o, both long-favoured contenders for the Nobel Prize for literature, are among nominees for the International Booker Prize for fiction. Can Xue ...

Chinese writer Can Xue, along with Japanese author Haruki Murakami, has been reportedly named as the fourth-ranked candidate by oddsmakers to have the highest chance of winning the prestigious Nobel ...