Chen Qiwen was born in June 1962 in Linxiang, Hunan. Graduated from college. An important writer of the new generation, he is praised by the media as a representative writer after 196s and one of the most powerful writers in contemporary China. He started writing in 1983, and published about 5 million words of novels and essays in October, Flower City, Mountain Flower, Everyone, Lotus, China Writer, Youth Literature, Beijing Literature and People's Literature. His works have been selected for many times, including Selected Novels of China, Selected Novels of China, China's Best Novelette of the Year, Literary Essentials of the 21st Century, Contemptive Works of the New Period, etc. He has won the third national Bing Xin Prose Award, the fourth Lao She Literature Award, the national reportage special prize, the first world Chinese Travel Competition and other domestic and foreign literary awards. The main representative works are the novel River Bed, novellas Cat's Eye in the City, Subversion, As if there is a Wind, Taiping Land, Dazzling White Time, Country Well Against Time, shipai village Woman, How Deep the Night is, and the selected essays Deep in the Season. Joined the Chinese Writers Association in 1993. Director of China Prose Society, first-class writer.