Xue Yiwei is an award-winning Chinese-Canadian writer born in Chenzhou and raised in the Hunan province. He has a BSc in Computer Science from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, an MA in English Literature from Université de Montréal, and a PhD in Linguistics from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. He is the author of sixteen books in Chinese, including four novels—Desertion (1989, reissued 2012), Dr. Bethune’s Children (2011), Farewells from a Shadow (2013), and Empty Nest (2014)—and five collections of stories. His first book in translation, Shenzheners (trans. Darryl Sterk) was published by LLP in 2016. The 2017 winner of the Montreal Diversity Literary Award presented by the Montreal Arts Council and Blue Metropolis Foundation, he lives in Montreal.
Darryl Sterk is a Mandarin Chinese-English literary translator. In addition to Shenzheners, Dr. Bethune's Children, and Home Sickness for LLP, he has translated Wu Ming-yi's The Man With the Compound Eyes (Harvill Secker) and The Stolen Bicycle (Text), as well as Horace Ho's The Tree Fort on Carnation Lane (Balestier) and short stories for The Taipei Chinese Pen and Pathlight. He lives in Hong Kong.
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Xue Yiwei est «un des secrets les mieux gardés de Montréal» selon le quotidien Le Devoir. Il habite le quartier Côte-des-Neiges depuis plus de quinze ans maintenant mais reste totalement méconnu du public québécois tout en étant un des écrivains les plus lus en Chine. Son œuvre est couronnée de prix et il a enseigné la littérature chinoise à l’Université de Shenzhen où il a habité pendant 13 ans. Il est l’auteur de cinq romans—Désertion, Les enfants du docteur Bethune, Les adieux d'une ombre et Le nid vide.
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