Shan Sa was born in Beijing and resides in Paris.

At the age of eight, she made a sensation in China when her first poems were published in “Poetry” magazine. At the age of nine, she was acclaimed as the youngest poet, a phenomenon of Chinese modern literature. Before the age of sixteen, she had already published four collections of her poems in Chinese.

In 1990, she moved to Paris as a teenager. In 1997, she returned to France and published her first novel, Porte de la Paix Céleste, which won the Goncourt for best first novel.

Later, at age of twenty-eight, she published her internationally renowned novel, “The Girl Who Played Go”. She has sold 350,000 copies of her third novel in France. Her writings have been translated into more than thirty languages.

Shan Sa is now acclaimed worldwide as an author. She has published six novels and received the Prix Goncourt twice. Her novels have been published in the Unites States by Knopf and Harper-Collins.
Shan Sa is also a painter with prominent exhibitions in New York, Paris, Tokyo and Shanghai.

works

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  Time in west, light in east

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  Cosmos