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Ning Ken

Ning Ken
Ning Ken is a novelist, essayist, editor, and blogger living in Beijing, China. He is the author of five novels, including the 2010 Tian•Zang (Heaven•Tibet), of which Nobel Prize for Literature winner Mo Yan said, “Ning Ken combines keen political critique with penetrating analysis of human nature, and he does so in entirely convincing fashion. Even more importantly, he has created a literary form that is entirely his own.” Ning Ken’s latest novel is Sange sanchongzou (Three Trios, 2015).


Modern China is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre

On Living Through the "Ultra-Unreal," and Writing About It
June 23, 2016  By Ning Ken
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