Old Snow

Bei Dao was born in 1949, and was first nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1993. His other collections in English and published by Anvil are 'The August Sleepwalker' (1988), 'Old Snow' (1992) and 'Landscape Over Zero' (1998). Bonnie S. McDougall is Professor of Chinese at the University of Edinburgh, having previously taught at Sydney, Harvard and Oslo. During the 1980s she lived for several years in Peking, and has written extensively on Bei Dao and other leading writers and artists in contemporary China. Chen Maiping, born in 1952, spent the Cultural Revolution years in Inner Mongolia. Returning to Peking, he contributed short stories to 'Today' and went on to complete an MA at the Central Academy of Drama. He left China for further studies in Oslo in 1986, and since 1989 has been co-editor with Bei Dao of 'Today', revived as a forum for Chinese writers in exile. At present he lives in Stockholm.