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Place of Birth: Fenghuang County, Hunan, China
About Shen Congwen
- Shen Congwen (28 December 1902 – 10 May 1988), formerly romanized as Shen Ts'ung-wen, is considered to be one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, on par with Lu Xun.
- Regional culture and identity plays a much bigger role in his writing than that of other major early modern Chinese writers.
- He was known for combining the vernacular style with classical Chinese writing techniques.
- Shen is the most important of the "native soil" writers in modern Chinese literature. He was slated to win the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature, but died before he could be awarded the prize.
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