Introduction to Tan Ge

Talk about songs. His original name is Tan Tongzhan. Born in 1954. His ancestral home is Wan County, Hebei Province (now Shunping County, Hebei Province). He completed primary school in Hebei Province Longyan Iron Mine West No. 2 Primary School, Xuan Iron and Steel Plant No. 1 Primary School, and Hebei Xuanhua No. 4 Middle School. Entered the workforce in 1970. He has successively held positions such as boilermaker, repairman, workshop director, geological team leader, agency secretary, propaganda officer, newspaper reporter, and government deputy mayor. He began literary creation in 1977 and began publishing works in 1978. To date, he has published 19 novels and more than 1,000 short and medium-sized novels, totaling more than 15 million words. Some works have been translated into French, Japanese, English and other languages ??and introduced abroad. In 1984, he was admitted to Hebei Normal University. Graduated in 1986 and worked as a reporter for Metallurgical News and Metallurgical Geological News. In 1996, he was transferred to the Hebei Writers Association and has been there ever since. He is currently the Vice Chairman of Hebei Writers Association.

In 1981, he participated in the second literary workshop held by the Hebei Federation of Literary and Art Circles (which lasted for six months). In 1994, he was hired as a professional writer by Hebei Academy of Literature (for a period of two years).

In 1994, he participated in the Hebei Province Young Writers Congress. In 1996, he participated in the Hebei Writers Congress. Participated in the National Writers Congress in 1996. In 1998, he participated in the postgraduate class of Lu Xun College of Literature. Participated in the National Writers Congress in 2001. In 2002, he participated in the first senior seminar of Lu Xun Institute of Literature. Participated in the National Writers Congress in 2006. Participated in the National Writers Congress in 2012.

The novella collection "Dachang" (Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House, 1997); the novella collection "City Hot Wind" (Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House, 1997); the novel "City Watch" (Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House) Press, 1997), the novel "Notes from Home" (People's Literature Publishing House, 1999), the short story collection "Notes from the World" (Published by Baihua Literature and Art, 2001), the short story collection "Swan Song" (Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House, 2001), and the collection of essays " "Spit It Out Quickly" (Yuanfang Publishing House, 2001); novella collection "Tales from the World" (Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House, 2002); novella collection "Legends of Heroes" (Taiwan Zhibenjia Publishing House, 2005); essay collection "Reading the Characters of the Water Margin" " (Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House, 2007), the novel "Piao'er" (Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House, 2009), and the short story collection "Human Notes 2" (Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House, 2011). He began his amateur literary creation in 1978. In 1979, he published a one-act drama "Welcome the Inspection Team" and other works in "Worker Daily". In the ten years to 1989, in his spare time, he worked in "Lotus Pond", "Gejiu Literature and Art", "Beijing Evening News", "Hebei Daily", "Baoding Literature and Art", "East China Sea", "Beijing Literature", "Novel Forest" ", "Sichuan Literature", "Guangzhou Literature and Art", "Works", "Tianjin Literature", "Worker Daily", "Health News", "Young Writers" and other dozens of newspapers and periodicals have published more than 300 short stories, prose, and poems More than a hundred poems. His representative works of short stories include "The Chief Engineer and the Son Selling a Big Bowl of Tea" (Editor-in-Charge of "Hebei Daily": Han Xiaochun), "I Want As Much Polyethylene as You Have" (Editor-in-Charge of "Modern Writers": Yang Ni), "Water Margin Knowledge" "Sidenotes of Quiz Competition" (Editor-in-Chief of "Guangzhou Literature and Art": Cen Zhijing), "If You Carrying a Gun to Shoot Rabbits for the First Time" (Editor-in-Chief of "Novel Forest": Chen Ming), "Forty-Year-Old College Student" (Editor-in-Chief of "Worker Daily": Zhao Yidong) and others. He has won essay awards or annual awards from some newspapers such as Workers Daily, Hebei Daily, and Tianjin Literature. Since 1990, he has focused on novel creation. Some short and medium-sized novels have been reprinted many times by "Xinhua Digest", "Novel Monthly", "Selected Novels", "Selected Novellas", "Works and Controversies", "Writers' Digest", etc. Such as "End of the Year", "Dachang", "Excellent Product", "The World's Desolate Years", "Yeminling", "Going to the Meeting Alone", "Tianxiang Pickles", etc. Published and published 19 novels, including "Notes from Home", "Piao'er", and "Qu's Killing".

The leader who set off the "realism shock wave" in the Chinese literary world in 1996. Tan Ge, Guan Renshan and He Shen were known as the Hebei Troika. Because many of his novels were published simultaneously by multiple publications in 1996, 1996 was nicknamed the "Year of Talking Songs" in the literary world by some media. Tan Ge's short stories such as "City Fans", "Mu Guiying Takes Command" and "Peerless" have been incorporated into university textbooks and middle school teaching aids. The short novel "The Bridge" was included in the Chinese textbook for the fifth grade of primary school. More than a dozen novels such as "Dachang" and "Juezu" have been translated into Japanese, French and English and introduced abroad.