Liu Zhenyun
Liu Zhenyun is a writer, born 1958.
Liu Zhenyun is a Chinese novelist and screenwriter, born in 1958 in Xinxiang, Henan. He is best known for the novel One Sentence Is Ten Thousand Sentences, and for how completely his fiction has moved into Chinese cinema: he adapts his own books and has worked repeatedly with the director Feng Xiaogang, including on I Am Not Madame Bovary. He also turns up on Chinese television comedy and talk shows, which is unusual for a novelist of his standing. He is married to the noted human rights activist Guo Jianmei. Several of his novels are listed here in both Chinese and English editions.
Movies (2)
TV (3)
Books (14)
- Kucharz, kretacz i baron rynku nieruchomosci (2019)
- Remembering 1942 (2016)
- The cook, the crook, and the real estate tycoon (2015)
- 1942 (2014)
- I did not kill my husband (2014)
- Wen gu yi jiu si er (2013)
- Wo bu shi Pan Jinlian (2012)
- Cell Phone (2011)
- Yi ju ding yi wan ju (2009)
- Wo jiao Liu Yuejin = (2007)
- Yi di ji mao (2004)
- Shou ji (2003)
- Liu Zhenyun wen ji (1996)
- Sheng wei nu ren (Xin shi qi zheng ming zuo pin cong shu) (1994)
Where to start with Liu Zhenyun
Start with I did not kill my husband, a comedy of bureaucratic escalation that gets funnier the angrier its heroine becomes, and the source of the Feng Xiaogang film. Cell Phone is the sharpest thing he has written about modern manners. Remembering 1942 is the bleakest and shows the range. If you would rather watch than read, The Dream Factory is a Feng comedy he appears in as an actor.