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Tie Ning

Tie Ning

Tie Ning

Tie Ning won a national short story award at the age of twenty-five and is the recipient of numerous other literary prizes. She has published ten books—collections of short fiction, essays, and novels—three of which were made into movies and television series, including The Bathing Women. In 2006, at the age of forty-nine, she was elected president of the Chinese Writers Association, becoming the youngest writer and first woman to be honored in this way. Her works have been translated into Russian, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Danish, Norwegian, and Vietnamese. The Bathing Women is her first work to be translated into English.

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The Bathing Women will be released on October 09, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
Oct 09, 2012
The Bathing Women is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Oct 09, 2012
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from The Bathing Women
Oct 06, 2012

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CHINAdaily, April 2, 2013
...readers. "Both China and Australia are countries with a great literary tradition in the Asia-Pacific region," said Tie Ning, chairwoman of the Chinese Writers Association, the forum's organizer, "I hope the mutual exchange will help people see the...
Guardian.co.uk, March 22, 2013
...largely neglected. This is a shame, because some of China's more thoughtful, accomplished women novelists (of whom Tie Ning, born in 1957, is one) offer reading pleasures – careful characterisation, attentive observation of dialogue – absent from the...
The Independent, February 22, 2013
...their fictional characters. Who is your hero/heroine from outside literature? My husband is the hero in my mind. Tie Ning's novel 'The Bathing Women' is published by Blue Door...
China Economic Net, February 16, 2013
...the capability of Chinese writers, and encouraging people to have faith in Chinese writing", Chinese Writers' Association chairwoman Tie Ning said. After the announcement of Mo's Nobel win in October, up to 920,000 people a day searched for information...
CHINAdaily, January 30, 2013
...the capability of Chinese writers, and encouraging people to have faith in Chinese writing", Chinese Writers' Association chairwoman Tie Ning said. After the announcement of Mo's Nobel win in October, up to 920,000 people a day searched for information...
Melbourne Age, January 18, 2013
...LENIN'S KISSES By Yan Lianke Text, $22.99 THE BATHING WOMEN By Tie Ning Blue Door, $29.99 THERE has been plenty of debate about Mo Yan and the issue of awarding the Nobel prize for literature to a paid-up member of the...
Toronto Star Online, December 21, 2012
...kaifang (“reform and opening up”) policy for precisely the same reason. The Bathing Women, the first book by Tie Ning to be translated into English, a best-selling and celebrated novelist in China, embodies this very allegory. The novel focuses...
Melbourne Age, January 18, 2013
...LENIN'S KISSES By Yan Lianke Text, $22.99 THE BATHING WOMEN By Tie Ning Blue Door, $29.99 THERE has been plenty of debate about Mo Yan and the issue of awarding the Nobel prize for literature to a paid-up member of the...
Toronto Star Online, December 21, 2012
...kaifang (“reform and opening up”) policy for precisely the same reason. The Bathing Women, the first book by Tie Ning to be translated into English, a best-selling and celebrated novelist in China, embodies this very allegory. The novel focuses...
South China Morning Post, December 9, 2012
...suggesting similarly soft-focus, exoticised portraiture à la Amy Tan or Lisa See lies within. But bestselling mainland writer Tie Ning's first novel to be translated into English does not distance readers with the cultural alienation that is the...
TheStar.com.my, December 6, 2012
...Sheng Keyi (China) Ru by Kim Thuy (Vietnam/Canada) Silent House by Orhan Pamuk (Turkey) The Bathing Women by Tie Ning (China) The Briefcase by Hiromi Kawakami (Japan) The Garden Of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng (Malaysia) The Road To Urbino...
MedIndia, December 6, 2012
...- Roma Tearne (Sri Lanka / UK) - Narcopolis - Jeet Thayil (India) - The Bathing Women - Tie Ning (China)Source-AFP...
MSN Philippines, December 5, 2012
...- Roma Tearne (Sri Lanka / UK) - Narcopolis - Jeet Thayil (India) - The Bathing Women - Tie Ning (China...
Turkish Daily, December 4, 2012
...- Roma Tearne (Sri Lanka / UK) - Narcopolis - Jeet Thayil (India) - The Bathing Women - Tie Ning (China...