![]() ![]() He practiced dentistry for five years before turning to fiction writing in 1983 because he didn't like "looking into people’s mouths the whole day." For Yu Hua, the Cultural Revolution took place from the ages of seven to seventeen. His childhood proximity to death shaped his later works. ![]() Yu Hua's parents worked as doctors, so his family lived in a hospital compound across from the mortuary. Yu was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang on April 3, 1960. ![]() His novels have been translated into English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Russian, Italian, Dutch, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Hungarian, Serbian, Turkish, Persian, Hebrew, Korean, Mongolian, Malayalam and Danish. Yu Hua has written five novels, six collections of stories, and three collections of essays. When he experimented with more chaotic themes like in Brothers (2005–06), Yu Hua received criticism from critics and readers. His novels To Live (1993) and Chronicle of a Blood Merchant (1995) were widely acclaimed. Many critics also regard him as a champion for Chinese meta-fictional or postmodernist writing. Yu Hua was regarded as a promising avant-garde or post-New Wave writer. Shortly after his debut as a fiction writer in 1983, his first breakthrough came in 1987, when he released the short story On the Road at Age Eighteen. Yu Hua ( simplified Chinese: 余华 traditional Chinese: 余華 pinyin: Yú Huá born April 3, 1960) is a Chinese author. ![]()
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