Ye Zhaoyan talks to Sarah Franklin

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One of China’s bestselling and most acclaimed authors Ye Zhaoyan, known for Nanjing 1937: A Love Story, talks about his work.

Zhaoyan is one of China’s most popular and prolific writers. A graduate of Nanjing University, he has produced a large body of literary work, the most celebrated of which include A Flower’s Shade and Nanjing 1937: A Love Story. The latter was an immediate bestseller on publication and hailed as a masterpiece of contemporary Chinese literature. He has won the National Prize for Excellence in Novella Writing, the Jiangsu Literature and Art Prize and other literary awards. His books have been translated into English, Italian, Korean and other languages.

Here he talks to Sarah Franklin, a lecturer in publishing at Oxford Brookes University who has written for the Guardian, Psychologies magazine, The Pool, the Sunday Express and the Seattle Times. Franklin is the founder and host of Short Stories Aloud and was a judge for the Costa Short Story Award.

Presented by the Confucius Institute and the Oxford International Centre for Publishing at Oxford Brookes University. Previous Confucius Institute events include Man Asian Literary Prize Winner Su Tong, the novelist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo, and the bestselling author of Yellowface, Rebecca Kuang.