Veteran author still young at art

Wang Meng has retained a youthful passion for writing over his six-decade career, and his unconventional style has charted a new course for Chinese literature, Fang Aiqing reports.

Veteran writer Wang Meng, at the age of 85, has just published an anthology of four of his recent works - and three of them deal with love, a theme that is often regarded as a preserve of the younger generation.

"I don't necessarily have to write about love. These love stories just come to me," he says.