Sun Ganlu was born on July 10, 1959 in Shanghai, China. His ancestral home is Rongcheng, Shandong. His father is a soldier and his mother is a teacher. He joined the local post office in 1977 and published his famous work "Visiting a Dream" in 1986. The subsequent "I Am a Young Wine Jar" and "The Messenger's Letter" made him a typical "avant-garde". Some people believe that Sun Ganlu turns writing into a rhetorical game of "anti-novel". His story has neither origin nor development, and of course no result. The narrative is nothing more than a self-disciplined reaction process where words are allowed to flow. In Sun Ganlu's narrative, those random and broken fantasy experiences are transformed into idiom structures according to the writing subject's emotional deepening and metaphysical experience of existence, philosophical reflections on the eternity of time and the instantaneity of existence, and literary expressions. The way is written. Therefore, it discourages literature lovers. In 1988, Sun Ganlu published the novella "Ask a Woman to Guess a Riddle", which is also regarded as a representative work of avant-garde novels. His major works include the novel "Breath" (Huacheng Publishing House, first edition in February 1997), short story collection "Visiting Dreams" (Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House, first edition in September 1993), and essay collection "Dancing on the Ceiling" ( Wenhui Publishing House, first edition in January 1997), etc. His works have been translated into English, French and Japanese, and have been included in various literary anthologies at home and abroad. In 2003, he published "Remembering Qin E" (China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing House).
In 2012, he accepted the invitation of CCTV's "Xiao Cui Talks" and talked about his unusual writing life.
In July 2014, he served as the vice president of Shanghai Internet Writers Association.
Sun Ganlu’s novels are more poetic stories than novels. Sun Ganlu’s personalized narrative makes the Chinese language and the story itself present richer possibilities than the language of contemporary poetry. As Wang Shuo said: Sun Ganlu is of course the best, and his written language is the most refined. He is like God pressing his hand to write, making us regain respect and awe for the written language.