Dai Sijie

Dai Sijie (Chinese戴思杰/戴思杰, Pinyin Dài Sijie, born March 2, 1954 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, People's Republic of China ) is a Chinese writer living in France, screenwriter and director.

Dai Sijie was born the son of a medical practitioner. From 1971 to 1974 he was sent as part of the cultural re-education in a mountain village in Sichuan. Employee in a secondary school in the province, he studied art history after Mao's death and emigrated to Paris in 1984. His experience in the re-education later served as his inspiration for his first novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, which was a huge international success and filmed in a French- Chinese production in 2002. For this film Dai also wrote the screenplay and directed.

Awards

  • 2000 Relay Prix du Roman d' Evasion for Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, as well as
  • 2000 Prix de la Edmée Rochfoucault'für the same novel and
  • 2001 Prix Roland de Jouvenel for the same novel.
  • Prix ​​Femina for his novel Muo and the oriole in the cage.

Works (selection)

  • Trois Vies chinois, Paris 2011
  • L' acrobatie aérienne de Confucius. Novel. Flammarion, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-08-121313-5.
  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. Roman ( " Balzac et la petite Tailleuse chinoise "). Neuaufl. Piper, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-25079-5 ( translated from the French by Giò Waeckerlin Induni ).
  • Muo and the oriole in the cage. Roman ( " Le complexe de Di" ). Piper, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-492-24520-3 ( from the French by Giò Waeckerlin Induni ).
  • As a hiker on a moonless night. Roman ( "Par une nuit où la lune ne s'est pas levée "). Neuaufl. Piper, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-26373-3 ( translated from the French by Giò Waeckerlin Induni ).
  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. Audiobook. Steinbach's Talking Books, Schwäbisch Hall 2009, ISBN 978-3-88698-732-0 (5 CDs, read by Edgar M. Bohlke ).
  • As a hiker on a moonless night. Audiobook. Steinbach Talking Books, Schwäbisch Hall 2009, ISBN 978-3-88698-959-1 (6 CDs, read by Svenja water, Werner Rehm and Patrick Heppt ).

Filmography

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