1. Xichuan, male, born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province in 1963, graduated from the English Department of Peking University in 1985.
2. Visiting scholar of Iowa University in 2002.
3. He is currently teaching at the Humanities College of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
4. His representative works are "Fictional Genealogy", "This is the Main Idea" and "Poems of Xichuan".
5. He has won the Lu Xun Literature Award (2001), the Solemn Literature Award (2003), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Azelberg Prize Xiujin (1997), the top ten of the Weimar Global Paper Competition in Germany (1999), etc.
