Xue Yiwei
Xue Yiwei was born in 1964 in Chenzhou, China. He completed an MA in literature at the Université de Montréal, and a doctoral degree in linguistics at Guangdong University in China. He has published 16 books, primarily novels and collections of short fiction, notably Shenzheners 1 1 Yiwei, Xue. Shenzeners. Translated by Darryl Sterk, Linda Leith Publishing, 2016. 188 pages (a collection of short stories modelled after James Joyce’s Dubliners 2 2 Joyce, James. Dubliners. Penguin Classics, 1992. 317 pages ) and the novel The Empty Nest. 3 3 Yiwei, Xue. 空巢 [The Empty Nest]. East China University Press, 2014. In 2002, Xue Yiwei moved permanently from China to Canada, settling in Montreal. While his works of fiction are well-known and successful in China, none of his works were translated into English until 2016. After the English translation appeared in 2016, Shenzheners won the Diversity Prize at the 19th Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in 2017, marking the first time that this festival had awarded a prize to a Chinese author. Celia, Misoka, I was first published in 2016, and translated into English by Stephen Nashef in 2022.
- 1 Yiwei, Xue. Shenzeners. Translated by Darryl Sterk, Linda Leith Publishing, 2016. 188 pages
- 2 Joyce, James. Dubliners. Penguin Classics, 1992. 317 pages
- 3 Yiwei, Xue. 空巢 [The Empty Nest]. East China University Press, 2014.