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Yan Lianke 20100328 Salon du livre de Paris 1
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Yan Lianke 20161015
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Yan Lianke, 2024 (cropped)
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阎连科

閻連科
Yán Liánkē
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Yan Lianke
  2. 2 Chinese novelist known for satirical, surreal critiques of rural life

About Yan Lianke

born 1958 · 作家 writer

Henan novelist whose satirical, often surreal books depict village life, such as 丁庄梦 about an AIDS epidemic spread by blood selling. Some appear only outside the mainland; he won the 2014 Franz Kafka Prize.

Examples

HSK 5
阎连科的作品在海外很受关注。
Yán Liánkē de zuòpǐn zài hǎiwài hěn shòu guānzhù.
Yan Lianke's work receives a lot of attention overseas.
HSK 6
阎连科是中国当代最有争议的作家之一。
Yán Liánkē shì Zhōngguó dāngdài zuì yǒu zhēngyì de zuòjiā zhīyī.
Yan Lianke is one of the most controversial contemporary Chinese writers.

Tips

culture
He coined the term 神实主义, 'mythorealism', for fiction that gets at the truth of Chinese life through absurd, impossible events.

In Pop Culture

《丁庄梦》 《 Dīngzhuāngmèng 》
Yan's 2006 novel Dream of Ding Village, about the blood-selling AIDS epidemic in rural Henan.

Stroke Order

阎 yán
连 lián
科 kē