Ge Fei (author)

Ge Fei (Chinese: 格非; pinyin: Gé Fēi; Wade–Giles: Ke Fei, born 1964), pen-name for Liu Yong (刘勇), is a notable contemporary Chinese author whose works were prominent during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Ge Fei was considered one of the preeminent experimental writers during that period. He is currently a professor of literature at Tsinghua University.

Ge Fei was born in Dantu, Jiangsu, in 1964. He graduated from East China Normal University in 1985. He received his PhD in 2000. He was invited to participate in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, United States, in 2009.

His most prominent work is the novel Peach Blossom Beauty (人面桃花, Renmian Taohua, 2004), which explores the concept of utopia, and is laden with classical allusions. It is the first book of his Jiangnan Trilogy, of which the second book, My Dream of the Mountain and River (山河入梦 Shanhe Rumeng), was published in 2007. The third is Spring Ends in Jiangnan (春尽江南), published in 2011.

The title of Renmian Taohua is taken from a classical work, and has also been used by the director Du Haibin for his documentary on a gay club in Chengdu (2005). The English name for the film, Beautiful Men, is not a direct translation.

The novella The Invisibility Cloak is the only work by Ge Feh to be available in English. It appeared in 2016 in a translation by Canaan Morse.

• 2015 Mao Dun Literature Prize, Jiangnan Trilogy

• "Winners of 2015 Mao Dun Literature Prize announced". GBTimes. August 17, 2015. Retrieved August 18, 2015.