Zhang Ling
Zhang Ling is the award-winning author of ten novels and numerous collections of novellas and short stories, including A Single Swallow , translated by Shelly Bryant; Where Waters Meet , her first novel written in English; Gold Mountain Blues ; and Aftershock , which was adapted into China's first IMAX movie with unprecedented box office success. Born in China, she moved to Canada in 1986 and, in the mid-1990s, began to write and publish fiction in Chinese while working as a clinical...See more
Zhang Ling is the award-winning author of ten novels and numerous collections of novellas and short stories, including A Single Swallow , translated by Shelly Bryant; Where Waters Meet , her first novel written in English; Gold Mountain Blues ; and Aftershock , which was adapted into China's first IMAX movie with unprecedented box office success. Born in China, she moved to Canada in 1986 and, in the mid-1990s, began to write and publish fiction in Chinese while working as a clinical audiologist. Since then, she has won the Chinese Media Literature Award for Author of the Year, the Grand Prize of Overseas Chinese Literary Award, and Chinese Times 's Open Book Award. See less