Xiaowen Zeng
Xiaowen Zeng（Chinese: 曾晓文; pinyin: Zéng Xiǎowén）is an award winning Chinese author living in Toronto, Canada. She has published a number of works of fiction and non-fiction, and screenplays. She was born in Heilongjiang, China, and received a Master of Arts in Literature from Nankai University, and a Master of Science in IT from Syracuse University. She lived in the United States for 9 years, and immigrated to Canada in 2003. Her daytime job is as an IT Director.
Selected Published Works in Chinese
· 《移民岁月》 The Immigrant Years, a novel · 《夜还年轻》 The Night Is Still Young, a novel · 《白日飘行》 The Daytime Floating Journey, a novel · 《梦断得克萨斯》 Shattered Dream in Texas · 《苏格兰短裙和三叶草》 The Kilt and Clover, a collection of novellas and short stories · 《背对月亮》 Turn Your Back to the Moon, a collection of essays · 《浪琴岛》 Langqin Island, a movie script · 《中国创造》 Invented in China [with Sun Bo], a 20-episode TV script, which was adapted to a 30-episode TV drama 《错放你的手》 Let Go of Your Hand and broadcast in China in February 2014.
Selected Awards
· Top prize in the First Global Chinese Prose Competition, 2014 · The Chinese Writers Erdos Literature Award (2011), Zhongshan Cup Overseas Literature Award (2011), and the 2011 Best TV Script Award sponsored by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Radio, Film and Television, for Invented in China · Top 10 short stories of 2009 as ranked by the China Fiction Association, for The Kilt and Clover · United Daily Literature Award, 2004 · Central Daily News literature Award, 1996, Taiwan
Selected (Chinese) Journals Where Works Have Been Published
· Fiction Monthly · People’s Literature · Literature World · World Journal · Fiction World · Beijing Literature · People’s Daily · The China Press · Prose · Baihuazhou Magazine
Community Activities
· Vice Chair and Chair of the Chinese Pen Society of Canada from 2004-2012 · Co-organized the First Chinese Canadian International Literature Symposium in 2011 · Presented at a number of Oversea Chinese Literature conferences in China · Interviewed by CCTV (China) in 2006 and 2014, by OMNI Television in 2010 and 2014, by Fairchild TV in 2009, by Jiamusi TV station in 2010, and by a number of journals in China, and Canada · Presentations of readings and lectures at schools including the University of Toronto, York University and Western University in Canada, and Jinan University in China
External links
- Zeng Xiaowen’s blog
- Zeng Xiaowen's ebooks at Amazon
- Zeng Xiaowen at York University Reading
- Zeng Xiaowen ECT presents a lecture by Ms. Xiaowen Zeng