Zhenyun LiuLiu Zhenyun is one of China's best-known authors and screenwriters. By the mid-1980s, Liu began publishing short stories and novellas, many of which are now classics of contemporary literature, including Tofu; College; Office; Officials; Recruits; an Remembering 1942. Later novels, such as Cellphone; The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon; Nonsense Talk; Someone To Talk To; I Did Not Kill My Husband; and Strange Bedfellows have become critically-acclaimed prize-winners as well as best-sellers among readers. His numerous awards include China's highest literary honor, the Mao Dun Literature Prize (2011), and France's Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (2018). His works have been translated into a number of languages including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Dutch, Russian, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian, Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Thai. To date, over 15 million copies of Liu's works have been sold in China, and more of his fiction has been adapted for the screen than that of any other major Chinese author. Read More Read Less