Women's writes

A. S. Byatt and Wang Anyi shared their take on women writers at a forum in Shanghai recently. Zhang Kun explains their similarities and differences.

Two prestigious women writers, A. S. Byatt from Britain and Wang Anyi from China, recently discussed contemporary women's writing in Shanghai.

The public conversation was one of the most important events of Byatt's eight-day visit to China. The Man Booker prize-winning author has just had her books, Possession and Angels and Insects, published in Chinese by the Thinkingdom Media Co Ltd.