As early as the early 1950s, he started literary creation in middle school. 1955 moved from Beijing to Ningxia, and was a farmer before becoming a teacher. During the anti-rightist period from 65438 to 0957, he was classified as "Rightist" for publishing a poem "Song of the Wind" and sent to the farm for "labor reform" for 22 years.
1979 After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, he regained his reputation and began to write novels, essays, reviews and plays, becoming one of the important contemporary writers in China. He used to be vice chairman and chairman of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Federation of Literary and Art Circles, chairman of Ningxia Branch of Chinese Writers Association, member of the 6th CPPCC National Committee and member of the Presidium of Chinese Writers Association.
On September 27th, 20 14, the famous writer Zhang Xianliang passed away at the age of 78.
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Representative works include: the short story "Soul and Body", "The Story of the Old Man and the Dog", "Sholbrak" and "The First Kiss". Novellas such as Descendants of the River, Dragon Seed, Love Story in Prison, Can't Wake Up, Good Morning Friends, Romantic Black Cannon, Greening Trees, Adolescence, 160 Million, etc.
Novels such as Men's Style, Half a Man is a Woman, Habitual Death, My Bodhi Tree, Novel China and Essays on Literature and Politics; Prose collections include Flying over Europe, Marginal Prose, Novel Supplement, Pursuing Wisdom, Another Way of Thinking of China Scholars, etc.
He has won the National Excellent Novel Award for three times (Soul and Body 1980, Shoerbrak 1983, Greening Tree 1984) and the National Literature Publishing Award for many times.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhang Xianliang