A hit with Western readers
By Yang Yang | China Daily | Updated: 2016-03-02 08:29
Mai Jia's first novel, Decoded, which was included by The Economist in its top 10 fiction list in 2014, has been translated into more than 30 languages. Here, the author reveals where he draws his inspiration from. Yang Yang reports.
The Mao Dun Literature Prize winner Mai Jia is one of the most popular contemporary Chinese writers among foreign readers. The first contemporary Chinese writer included in Penguin Classics after Lu Xun, Qian Zhongshu and Eileen Chang, he is regarded as China's Dan Brown or John Le Carre.
His first novel, Decoded, which was included by The Economist in its top 10 fiction list in 2014, has been translated into more than 30 languages.
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