Jia Pingwa,1February 2, 9521was born in Dihua Village, Danfeng County, southern Shaanxi. My father is a rural teacher and my mother is a farmer. During the Cultural Revolution, the family was destroyed and became a "teachable son". 1972, by chance, he entered Northwest University to study Chinese language and literature. Since then, I have been living in Xi 'an, engaged in literary editing and writing. His main published works are Shangzhou, Impetuousness, The Abandoned Capital, White Night, Gao Lao Zhuang, Missing the Wolf, Shaanxi Opera, Ancient Furnace, With Lights, etc. He has won many national literary awards such as Mao Dun Literature Award (Shaanxi Opera) and Shi Naian Literature Award (Ancient Furnace), as well as foreign literary awards such as American Mobil Flying Horse Literature Award, French Fermine Literature Award and French Republic Literature and Art Honor Award. Twenty editions have been translated into English, French, German, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese for publication.