Since 1977, more than 70 short stories, 30 novellas, 7 novels and several essays and literary theories have been published, totaling 4 million words. Representative works include Rain, sasha vujacic, Train Terminal, Love in a Small Town, Gone, Xiaobaozhuang, I Love Bill, Sixty-ninth Junior High School Students, Fuping, Song of Eternal Sorrow and so on. Among them, The Terminal of the Train won the National Short Story Award, A Paragraph and Xiao Bao Zhuang won the National Novelette Award, and Song of Eternal Sorrow won the Fifth Mao Dun Literature Award. Some works have been translated into English, French, German, Dutch, Japanese and Korean.
Wang Anyi is currently the chairman of Shanghai Writers Association.