YE GUANGQIN

Residence Period: 03.05.2017-31.05.2017

Project: ICA Writers' Residence Prague & October Writers' Residence • Prague

An ethnic Manchu novelist, translator and essayist, was born in Beijing in 1948 and grew up in Shaanxi. Now she is a first class writer of China and also a member of the Chinese Writers Association, former president of West Peihua University Women's College.

Style of writing

Ye Guangqin has tried many different styles , themes and also many genres including novel, essay, non-fiction, drama. So she has many famous works and known by people around the nation. Her most contribution is in Beijing style literary and very good at describing the life of big clans in Beijing.

Much of Ye's fiction, including the historical novels Inside the Gate of Heavenly Purity and The Imperial Matchmaker, is set in Beijing and tells stories of the Manchu aristocracy. Her works inherited the essence of Beijing style literary which is represented by Lao She, and retain the unique culture heritage of ancient Beijing.

Writings

Caisongzi /Song of Picking Mulberries , Little Cowherd , Signal Left, Turn Right , The Luofu River and Me ,Beware of Bears , wind rustling rain Xiaoxiao , Douzhi mind , Qingmuchuan , Summer Palace of loneliness and so on.

Achievements

She has won many awards , like The Lu Xun Literature Prize, The Lao She Literature Prize, The Xiao Hong Literature Prize, The Chinese female Literature Prize, The Chinese Environmental Literature Prize and son on .

Her autobiography, The Luofu River and Me, won the Fifth Junma Award.

Novellas , Wind rusting rain xiaoxiao, won the second Lu Xun Literature prize

入住期：2017年5月3日-5月31日

北京市人，满族。国家一级作家。中国作家协会全委会委员，西安市文史研究馆馆员，西安培华学院女子学院院长。被陕西省委省政府授予"德艺双馨文艺工作者"称号，被北京人民艺术剧院授予"北京人艺荣誉编剧"称号。

叶广芩是当代创作颇丰、风格独特、成就卓著的作家。其写作体裁全方位多样化，小说、散文、纪实文学、剧本无不精通；其创作题材贯通古今、融会中西，包罗世相，自成体系。

由于其独特的身世与文化熏陶，加之人生不寻常的历练与丰富的阅历，其文思恣肆，文理自然，文采熠熠，文章别具一格。在诸多享誉读者的佳作中，尤以其家族为背景的系列小说最为精彩，承继了以老舍为代表的现代京味文学的精髓，难能可贵地保留了古都北京特有的文化底蕴，延续了明清以来京都语言韵律的薪火。在当代致力于京味文学的作家中属旗帜性人物。

叶广芩曾挂职基层十多年，深入陕西秦岭深山老林中，与当地民众亲密接触，虚心求教，了解与研究了当地的历史、人文地理知识，写出了大量的反映山地风土民习及自然生态的优秀作品；曾赴日本读研及工作多年，创作了诸多视角独特、感人至深的小说。此外，叶广芩还创作了大量文字清新立意广泛的散文、随笔及形像的影视剧作品。

自1980年代创作以来已发表作品500余万字。主要作品有：长篇小说《战争孤儿》《注意熊出没》《采桑子》《全家福》《青木川》《状元媒》等；长篇纪实《没有日记的罗敷河》《琢玉记》《老县城》等；中短篇小说集多部；电影、话剧、电视剧等多部。曾获鲁迅文学奖、老舍文学奖、少数民族文学骏马奖、柳青文学奖、萧红文学奖、中国女性文学奖、中国环保文学奖等奖项。