| 词条 | Geling Yan |
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| name = Geling Yan | image = Yan Geling Buchmesse 2014 (02).jpg | caption = Yan at Frankfurt bookfair 2014 | birth_name = 严歌苓 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|11|16|df=y}} | birth_place = Shanghai, China | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = American | occupation = Novelist, screenwriter | residence = | notableworks = A Woman's Epic | spouse = Li Kewei (?-1990s) Lawrence Walker (1992-) | children =1 | alma_mater = Wuhan University Columbia College Chicago }}Geling Yan ({{zh|t=嚴歌苓|s=严歌苓|p=Yán Gēlíng}}; born 16 November 1958[1]) is a prominent Chinese-American writer,[2] author of several novels, short stories and screenplays. Much of her work has been adapted for film. She is currently represented by the Hong Kong-based Peony Literary Agency.[3] Early lifeYan was born in Shanghai, China in 1959. She is the second child of Yan Dunxun and Jia Lin. She has an elder brother Yan Geping (严歌平).[4] Her father is an alumnus of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University.[5] Yan began performing as a dancer at age 12. She served in the People's Liberation Army during the Cultural Revolution, in Tibet and later as a journalist in the Sino-Vietnamese War, achieving a rank equivalent to lieutenant colonel. CareerWorksHer first novel was published in 1985. She is the author of such novels as The Banquet Bug (published as The Uninvited in the UK) and The Lost Daughter of Happiness, as well as a story collection entitled White Snake and Other Stories. Several of Yan's works have been adapted for film, including The Sent-Down Girl, which was directed by Joan Chen, and Siao Yu, directed by Sylvia Chang and screenplay co-written by Ang Lee. Zhang Yimou, the Chinese director of To Live and Raise the Red Lantern adapted her novella 13 Flowers of Nanjing to the screen as The Flowers of War, and his movie Coming Home was based on Yan's novel The Criminal Lu Yanshi.[6] She has worked on other scripts including a biography of Mei Lanfang, the Peking opera star, for Chinese director Chen Kaige. Novels in English
Novels in Chinese
Short stories in English
TitleShe is a member of the Hollywood Writer's Guild of America and the Writer's Association of China. Education backgroundYan holds a bachelor's degree in literature from Wuhan University, and a Master's in Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from Columbia College Chicago. Personal lifeYan's ex-husband is Li Kewei; they divorced in the 1990s. In 1992, Yan married her second husband Lawrence Walker in Los Angeles. Walker is a diplomat. They have no biological children together, but have adopted a little Chinese girl,Yanyan.[15] References1. ^{{cite linked authority file|id=n87-873515}} 2. ^{{Cite news |url=https://www.ft.com/content/cd7dbfa0-427f-11e1-93ea-00144feab49a |title=Novelist threatens Apple with US lawsuit |last=Hille |first=Kathrin |date=January 19, 2012 |access-date=February 20, 2018}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.peonyliteraryagency.com|title=Peony Literary Agency}} 4. ^严歌苓： 翻手苍凉 覆手繁华 Retrieved 2017-01-14 5. ^“家”系列之严歌苓 Retrieved 2017-01-14 6. ^https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/07/07/writing-china-yan-geling-the-criminal-lu-yanshi/ 7. ^https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/dec/09/featuresreviews.guardianreview13 8. ^https://www.nytimes.com/books/01/05/13/bib/010513.rv122843.html 9. ^https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/nanjing-requiem-by-ha-jinthe-flowers-of-war-by-geling-yan-trans-nicky-harman-6291808.html 10. ^https://www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Aunt-Crane-Geling-Yan/dp/1846555906 11. ^https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/movies/youth-review.html 12. ^http://granta.com/the-landlady/ 13. ^https://paper-republic.org/pubs/read/disappointing-returns/ 14. ^http://store.auntlute.com/White-Snake-p228.html 15. ^严歌苓：做一个在美国畅销的中国作家 Retrieved 2017-01-14 External links{{commons category|Yan Geling}}
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