Xiaowen Zeng

Xiaowen Zeng
Xiaowen Zeng
	Xiaowen Zeng.
Native name	曾晓文
Born	Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, China
Occupation	Writer; screenwriter; translator
Language	Chinese, English
Citizenship	Canada
Alma mater	Nankai University; Syracuse University
Period	1991–present
Genre	Novel, novella, short story, screenplay, prose
Notable works	Shattered Dreams in Texas
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	曾曉文
Simplified Chinese	曾晓文
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zēng Xiǎowén

Xiaowen Zeng (Chinese: 曾晓文; pinyin: Zēng Xiǎowén) is an award-winning Chinese-Canadian author living in Toronto, Canada.

Biography

Xiaowen Zeng was born in Jiamusi in the Heilongjiang of China. She received a Master of Arts in Literature from Nankai University, and a Master of Science in IT from Syracuse University. She lived in the United States for 9 years, and immigrated to Canada in 2003.

Xiaowen has worked in the IT field for more than 20 years including as System Analyst, IT Manager, Sr. Director of IT in Canada, the U.S. and China. She has published a number of works of fiction and non-fiction, and screenplays.

Community activities include:

Vice Chair and Chair of the Chinese Pen Society of Canada from 2004 to 2012
Co-organized the First Chinese Canadian International Literature Symposium in 2011
Presented at a number of Oversea Chinese Literature conferences in China
Interviewed by CCTV (China) in 2006 and 2014; by OMNI Television in 2010, 2014 and 2018; by Fairchild TV in 2009 and 2018; by Jiamusi TV station in 2010; and by a number of radio stations and journals in China,Canada and the US
Presentations of readings and lectures at schools including Harvard University, the University of Toronto, York University, Western University in Canada, and Jinan University, Zhejiang University,People's University, Nankai University, and Tianjin Normal University in China

Selected works

Published works in Chinese

Novel

The China Chip (《中国芯传奇》) 2019, Co-Author (合著)
The Immigrant Years (《移民岁月》) 2013
The Night Is Still Young (《夜还年轻》) 2009
Shattered Dreams in Texas (also published as The Daytime Floating Journey) (《梦断德克萨斯》或《白日飘行》) 2005

Collection of novellas and short stories

A Double Petaled Woman (《重瓣女人花》) 2017
Too Tired to Love (《爱不动了》) 2016
The Kilt and Clover (《苏格兰短裙和三叶草》) 2012

Collection of prose

The Woman Born a Leaf (《属树叶的女子》) 2018
Carrying the Soul Back Home (《背灵魂回家》) 2017
Turn Your Back to the Moon (《背对月亮》) 2012

TV script

Co-wrote and published a 20-episode TV drama Invented in China (《中国创造》) in 2011. It was made into a 30-episode series re-titled Let Go of Your Hand and aired in 2014 in China. (《错放你的手》)

Translation

Anne of Green Gables 2018

Movie script

Langqin Island (《浪琴岛》) 2013

Published works in English

A translated version of Carrying the Soul Back Home has been published on the Ricepaper.ca website and was included in the Ricepaper 2017 print anthology Currents
First original English short story Return to Gander was published in an anthology of short stories by Chinese authors entitled The Strangers in 2016
Two short stories, The Kilt and Clover and The Smell, were published in an anthology of translated works by Canadian Chinese Writers entitled Toward the North in 2018

Awards

Overseas Chinese Writing Award for A Double Petaled Woman (《重瓣女人花》in 2019
The Great Bay Area Cyber Literature Award for The China Chip (《中国芯传奇》in 2019
LinGuo Best Creativity Award for TV script The China Chip (《中国芯》in 2019
Overseas Chinese Writing Award for The Woman Born a Leaf (《属树叶的女子》in 2018
Top 10 novellas of 2017 as ranked by the China Fiction Association, for Gold Dust (《金尘》)
Xiaowen receiving the top prize in the First Global Chinese Prose Competition, 2014
Top prize in the First Global Chinese Prose Competition, 2014, for Carrying the Soul Back Home (《背灵魂回家》)
The Chinese Writers Erdos Literature Award (2011)
Zhongshan Overseas Literature Award (2011)
2011 Best TV Script Award sponsored by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Radio, Film and television, for Invented in China
Top 10 short stories of 2009 as ranked by the China Fiction Association, for The Kilt and Clover (《苏格兰短裙和三叶草》)
United Daily Literature Award, 2004
Central Daily News literature Award, 1996, Taiwan

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