Wang Zhezhu

Wang Zhezhu is an award-winning writer from the southern Chinese province of Guangzhou. Her short stories and novellas have been widely anthologised in Chinese literary journals, including in the 2012 Chinese Best Novella Selection.

Her novels include Old Village and The Yangtze, which won the 2016 Dali Cup, and The Train that Stopped, which won the inaugural China Bookworm Literary Award in 2018, initiated to select and translate a previously unpublished novel by a mainland Chinese writer.