Huo Da

Huo Da
Native name 霍达
Born (1945-11-26) November 26, 1945
Beijing, China
Occupation Novelist
Language Chinese
Ethnicity Hui
Period 1980 - present
Genre Novel
Notable works The Muslim's Funeral
Notable awards Mao Dun Literature Prize
1991 The Muslim's Funeral
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Huo.

Huo Da (simplified Chinese: 霍达; traditional Chinese: 霍達; pinyin: Huò Dá) is a Chinese female writer of Hui ethnicity. She also is a film editor. Her Hui name is Fa Tumai (Chinese: 法图迈; pinyin: Fǎ Túmài). One of her works, The Muslim's Funeral won the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 1991.[1] It has been translated into English, French, Arabic and Urdu.

Her most famous novel, and the only one to be translated into English, was the 1988 Muslim Funeral, which chronicled the history of three generations of a family of Muslim jade carvers in Beijing; it provoked controversy for its positive attitude towards market entrepreneurialism and its suggestion that the Han in Beijing negatively stereotype the Hui for their poverty and lack of education, while they do not have the same attitude towards the Manchu.[2]

Biography

Huo Da was born into a family of scholars on November 26, 1945 in Beijing. She graduated from Beijing Construction College in 1966. And then she engaged in translation work for many years. In 1976, she became a film editor of Beijing Film Studio. In 1978, she was transferred into Beijing television art center and started her professional writing career.

Works

References

  1. ↑ 第三届茅盾文学奖获奖作者及作品. CCTV (in Chinese). 2003-12-26. Retrieved 2014-01-14.
  2. ↑ Gladney 1998: 126-127
  3. ↑ 穆斯林的葬礼 (in Chinese). xiexingcun.com. Retrieved 2014-01-14.
  4. ↑ 霍达_中国作家网 (in Chinese). chinawriter.com.cn. Retrieved 2014-01-14.

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