According to a report by Hong Kong’s “Tuan Media”, writer Xixi passed away peacefully in hospital this morning due to heart failure at the age of 85. Su Ye Workshop, which first published Xixi’s masterpiece “My City”, published an obituary saying, “Xixi lived a wonderful and happy life. , and it was beneficial and meaningful. We will all miss her.”
Xixi, whose real name is Zhang Yan, was born in Shanghai in 1937 and settled in Hong Kong in 1950. She graduated from the Hong Kong Grantham Institute of Education (now Education University of Hong Kong, the predecessor of the Institute of Education) In 1983, “A Woman Like Me” won the “United Daily News” Fiction Award Recommendation Award, opening a literary relationship with Taiwan. In 2005, she won the “Sin Chew Daily” “Hua Zang World Chinese Literature Award”. She is Hong Kong Book Fair’s “Literary Writer of the Year” in 2011, and she won the “Newman Chinese Literature Award” in 2018.
Since 1974, Xixi has serialized her Hong Kong story, My City, which was named one of the top 100 Chinese novels of the 20th century by Asia Weekly. Sissi was suffering from breast cancer and was hospitalized. After recovering from surgery, her right hand gave out due to sequelae, and she switched to writing with her left hand. In 1992, she published the book “Mourning Breasts”, reflecting on the physical and mental feelings of the disease, fully revealing the cause and effect of the disease, and at the same time triggering an intellectual forehead cancer The sometimes real and illusory life experience was adapted into the film “A Couple Born”; in order to recover her right hand, Xixi used handicrafts such as making miniature houses and teddy bears to heal herself, and she subsequently completed “My Georgia” and “Sew Bears” Waiting for books.
Xixi continuously wrote and completed the novel “Qin Tianjian” earlier this year, leading readers to witness the turning point where China may be able to keep up with Western science. “History.
The current Taiwanese media project “They Write on the Island” has released a documentary series for writers. In 2015, “My City” was directed by Hong Kong director Chen Guo, the devoted figure of My City.
