Pang Bei

Pang Bei, born in 1966, is a novelist, a playwright as well as a screenwriter. The Name of the Nun, a novel written by Pang Bei, is reputed as a novel which requires the talent of none but Jorge Luis Borges, yet one that Jorge Luis Borges found hard to write. It is also acclaimed as the Chinese version of Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, a novel considered to be the ground-breaking book of knowledge-based mystery novel in the West. The Name of the Nun has been listed as one of the annual global Top 10 Best Chinese Novels selected by Asian Newsweek. As a playwright, Pang Bei‘s stage play Life After Life, an internationally-expressed Chinese drama, has been well received in China. It will be performed in the 2016 Festival d’Avignon. And as a screenwriter, Pang Bei ‘s fi lm script Lord of Shanghai is a winner of the Golden Horse Film Festival (Taiwan). Pang Bei shared the same career in his youth days with Mo Yan, the Nobel literature laureate of China, and Mai Jia, author of the worldwide bestseller Decode. This special experience has given them a global vision and the ability to reach out to the world.