Fang Fang is a poet and prolific fiction writer.
She was born into a Nanjing literati family in 1955. When she was two, the family moved to Wuhan. Before attending Wuhan University, she spent four years as a longshore(wo)man in Wuhan to support her family, a period she recalls in interviews as the formative years that shaped her and provided material for early works such as “The View” (1987). Her empathic portraits of Wuhanese from factory workers to intellectuals earned her a place as a leader of the “new realism” literature.

Fang Fang was also the winner of the 2010 Lu Xun Literary Prize. In 2012, she visited the UK and appeared at the Cheltenham Literary Festival.

During the 2020 Hubei lockdowns, Fang Fang used social media to share her Wuhan Diary(武汉日记), a daily account of life in the locked-down city posted, an account that drew international public attention.

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