Xue Yiwei
Xue Yiwei is a Chinese-born Canadian author.
His hometown is Changsha, Hunan, and his birthplace was Chenzhou in the same province. He attended the Beijing University of Aeronautics in a computer science program, gaining a BsC. Next he attended the Université de Montréal, taking a program in English literature, attaining a Master of Arts. Finally he attended the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in a doctoral program in linguistics and received his degree.
In 2002, he relocated to Canada, due to his disenchantment with the materialism-focused direction of literature in his home country. In February, he occupied an apartment in proximity to the St. Joseph Oratory, in Côte-des-Neiges. In 2016, CBC Radio presented him as having a high level of popularity in China, known to "millions of people". Ha Jin stated that Xue is a "maverick".
Shenzheners was his first work translated into English. Previously, he was not known among Anglophone audiences, and he lived in Montreal in relative obscurity.
Works
; NovelsDesertion - A new edition was issued in 2012.Dr. Bethune's Children - English translation 2017 This was not published in China.- * The novel addresses the life of Norman Bethune.Farewells from a Shadow Empty Nest King Lear and Nineteen Seventy-Nine
- * Beginning in March 2020 it was serialized in a magazine in China. Xue had intentions to have an English translation produced.
- Celia, Misoka, I - English translation 2022
- four other works