Fang Fang
Chinese writer and novelist
Fang Fang is a Chinese novelist. Her Wuhan Diary chronicles how the COVID-19 pandemic began in China.
1 summary 17 min of listening
Chinese Born 1955 in Nanjing, People's Republic of China
About Fang Fang
Fang Fang is the pen name of Wang Fang, who was born in Nanjing in 1955. She began writing poetry in 1975, studied Chinese at Wuhan University, and graduated in 1982, the year her first novel was published. Her fiction has depicted the working poor, and she won the Lu Xun Literary Prize in 2010. Some of her novels have also received national literary prizes in China. Wuhan Diary records the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in China and brought her international attention. She has also publicly argued against internet censorship in China.