"Milan Lectures" Author: Yu Hua Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House

Yu Hua was born in April 1960 and started writing in 1983. His major works include Brothers, To Live, Xu Sanguan Selling Blood, Shouting in the Rain, The Seventh Day, etc. His works have been translated into more than 40 languages ​​and published in more than 40 countries and regions including the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Russia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Poland, Romania, Albania, Georgia, Turkey, Brazil, Israel, Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India. He has won the Italian Grinzane Cavour Literature Prize (1998), the French Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (2004), the French International Courier Foreign Novel Prize (2008), the Italian Giuseppe Acerbi International Literature Prize (2014), the Serbian Ivo Andric Literature Prize (2018), the Italian Portelli Ratus Grinzane Literature Prize (2018), etc.