Qin Wenjun


Qin Wenjun is an author of children's literature. She writes in Chinese.
Qin Wenjun was born in Shanghai in 1954. In 1971, as one of the educated youth sent to work in the rural China, Qin was sent to a forested area in Daxing'an Ling Prefecture, Heilongjiang province, in north-east China. Her first publication was a novella "Shining Fireflies" in 1981. In 1984 she graduated from East China Normal University's Department of language and literature, and then worked as an editor at the Shanghai Children's Press. She is now Director-General of the Shanghai Board on Books for Young People, Vice President of the Shanghai Writers Association, and a National Committee Member of the China Writers Association. Qin's novels have been adapted for films and TV series, and have attained China's highest honours for film and TV series. Her works have been translated into English, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, and other languages.
While drawing on deep Chinese traditions, she has also laid new foundations for young readers.

Awards and honours (selection)

Qin Wenjun has written over 50 books. The following translated titles are approximate:
  • 《我是花木兰》I am Hua Mulan, illustrated by Yu Rong
  • 《会跳舞的向日葵》 translated into English as Aroma's Little Garden by
  • 《天棠街3号》 translated into English as 3 Tian Tang Street by
  • Curly the Black Goat, Hoopy the White Goat
  • 《大狗喀啦克拉的公寓》 Smiling Kalakela
  • Jia Li at Junior High
  • 《男生贾里全传》 The Complete Story of Jia Li
  • 《一个女孩的心灵史》 The Mind of a Girl
  • 《逃逃》 Taotao
  • 《调皮的日子》
  • 《女生贾梅全传》
  • 《小丫林晓梅》
  • 《宝贝当家》
  • 《小香咕系列》
  • ''Girl at Sixteen''