Bronze and Sunflower

Cao Wenxuan is a Chinese author and professor who won the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 2016, becoming the first Chinese author to win the prize. He is a professor at Peking University and is best known in the English-speaking world for the novels Bronze and Sunflower (translated by Helen Wang) and Fire Boy. Cao's fiction often explores the hardships of rural Chinese life, particularly during the Cultural Revolution, through the eyes of children. Read more →