Shuang Xuetao (双雪涛) was born in 1983 on Rouge Street in the city of Shenyang, Shuang has written six volumes of fiction, for which he has won the Blossoms Literary Prize, the Wang Zengqi Short Story Prize, and, most recently, the US$50,000 Blancpain-Imaginist Award for best Chinese writer under forty-five. Shuang Xuetao lives in Beijing.

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