Wei Wei

Wei Wei was born in an urban poor family in Zhengzhou, Henan Province on March 6, 1920. Wei Wei entered a civilian primary school as a teenager, and later studied in a simple normal school in the countryside. At the age of 15, his parents died and he made a living by transcribing. His long poem "The Landscape of Dawn" written in 1942 was awarded the "Lu Xun Literature and Art Prize" by the Federation of Literary and Art Circles of the Jin-Chaji Border Region for successfully expressing the life of the Anti-Japanese Struggle. On April 11, 1951, "Who is the cutest person" was published in the People's Daily, which caused widespread influence across the country. In 1978, he completed the novel "Oriental", which won the first Mao Dun Literature Prize in 1983. After co-writing and publishing the novella "Storm in the Sky" with Bai Ai in 1952, he collaborated with Qian Xiaohui to write the film novel "Red Storm" in 1956.

Character Achievement

He served as a representative of the first to third National People's Congress, an honorary member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, an adviser to the China Writers Association, a vice president of the China-North Korea Friendship Association, and a president of the Literary Research Society of China's Jiefang District.

The collection of essays "Who is the loveliest person" has been translated into many foreign languages

"The East" in the trilogy of "Revolutionary War" won the Mao Dun Literature Award, the first Chinese People's Liberation Army Literature and Art Award and the first People's Literature Award

"The Red Ribbon of the Earth" won the "signpost of life" award and the People's Literature Award.