Yan Ge

Yan Ge was born in Sichuan, China in 1984. She is a fiction writer in both Chinese and English, and is the author of fourteen books in Chinese, including six novels. She has received numerous awards and was named by People’s Literature magazine as one of twenty future literature masters in China. Her work has been translated into twelve languages, including English, French, and German. The latest English translation of her novel, Strange Beasts of China, was one of the New York Times Notable Books of 2021. She was on the judging panel of the International Dublin Literary Award 2019. In 2021, she was on the final selection panel for the Laureate for Irish Fiction. Yan’s English writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Irish Times, TLS, Granta, The Stinging Fly, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia where she was the recipient of the UEA International Award 2018/19. She was a MacDowell fellow in 2022. Her English language debut short story collection Elsewhere was published in 2023 and was one of the New Yorker Best Books of the Year. Yan lives in Norwich.