Xiaowen Zeng

Early life and education

Career

Work

Published works in chinese

Novel

• The China Chip 2019, Co-Author
• The Immigrant Years 2013
• The Night Is Still Young 2009
• Shattered Dreams in Texas 2005

  Collection of novellas and short stories

• A Double Petaled Woman 2017
• Too Tired to Love 2016
• The Kilt and Clover 2012

  Collection of prose

• The Woman Born a Leaf 2018
• Carrying the Soul Back Home 2017
• Turn Your Back to the Moon 2012

  Tv script

• Co-wrote and published a 20-episode TV drama Invented in China in 2011. It was made into a 30-episode series re-titled Let Go of Your Hand and aired in 2014 in China.

  Translation

• Anne of Green Gables 2018

  Movie script

• Langqin Island 2013

  Awards

• Overseas Chinese Writing Award for A Double Petaled Woman
• Top prize in the First Global Chinese Prose Competition, 2014, for Carrying the Soul Back Home
• The Chinese Writers Erdos Literature Award
• Zhongshan Overseas Literature Award
• 2011 Best TV Script Award sponsored by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Radio, Film and television, for Invented in China
• Top 10 short stories of 2009 as ranked by the China Fiction Association, for The Kilt and Clover
• United Daily Literature Award, 2004
• Central Daily News literature Award, 1996, Taiwan

  Published works in English

• A translated version of Carrying the Soul Back Home has been published on the Ricepaper.ca website and was included in the Ricepaper 2017 print anthology Currents
• First original English short story Return to Gander was published in an anthology of short stories by Chinese authors entitled The Strangers in 2016
• Two short stories, The Kilt and Clover and The Smell, were published in an anthology of translated works by Canadian Chinese Writers entitled Toward the North in 2018

  Community activities

• Vice Chair and Chair of the Chinese Pen Society of Canada from 2004 to 2012
• Co-organized the First Chinese Canadian International Literature Symposium in 2011
• Presented at a number of Oversea Chinese Literature conferences in China
• Interviewed by CCTV in 2006 and 2014; by OMNI Television in 2010, 2014 and 2018; by Fairchild TV in 2009 and 2018; by Jiamusi TV station in 2010; and by a number of radio stations and journals in China,Canada and the US
• Presentations of readings and lectures at schools including Harvard University, the University of Toronto, York University, Western University in Canada, and Jinan University, Zhejiang University,People's University, Nankai University, and Tianjin Normal University in China