of which have been translated into English. Novels 《突围表演》 (1988); later published as 五香街 (2002). Five Spice Street, trans. Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Yale, 2009). 《最后的情人》 (2005). The Last Lover, trans. Annelise Finegan Wasmoen (Yale, 2014). 《边疆》 (2008). Frontier, trans. Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Open Letter, 2017). 《新世纪爱情故事》 (2013). Love in the New Millennium, trans. Annelise Finegan Wasmoen (Yale, 2018). 《赤腳醫生》 (2019). Barefoot Doctor, trans. Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Yale, 2022). Novellas 《苍老的浮云》 (1986). Old Floating Cloud. 《黄泥街》 (1987). Yellow Mud Street. 《种在走廊上的苹果树》 (1987). Apple Tree in the Corridor. 《神秘列车之旅》 (published in 2016 in the collection of the same name). Mystery Train, trans. Natascha Bruce (Sublunary Editions, 2022). Short story collections 《天堂里的对话》 (1988). Dialogues in Paradise, trans. Ronald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang (Northwestern, 1989). Compilations in English Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas, trans. Ronald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang (Northwestern, 1991). Compiles Yellow Mud Street and Old Floating Cloud. The Embroidered Shoes, trans. Ronald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang (Henry Holt, 1997). Blue Light in the Sky and Other Stories, trans. Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (New Directions, 2006). Vertical Motion, trans. Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Open Letter, 2011). I Live in the Slums, trans. Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Yale, 2020). Purple Perilla, trans. Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (ISOLARII, 2021). Compiles “An Affair”, “Mountain Ants” and “Purple Perilla”. Awards and honors 2015 Best Translated Book Award, winner, The Last Lover, translated from the Chinese by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen 2019: International Booker Prize, longlisted, Love in the New Millennium (新世纪爱情故事), translated from the Chinese by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen (Yale University Press) 2021: International Booker Prize, longlisted, I Live in the Slums, translated from Chinese by Karen Gernant & Chen Zeping (Yale University Press) References External links MIT Contemporary Chinese Writers: Can Xue Chinese literary critics Writers from Changsha 1953 births Living people Chinese women short story writers International Writing Program alumni Chinese women novelists People's Republic of China novelists People's Republic of China short story writers Short story writers from Hunan 20th-century pseudonymous writers 21st-century pseudonymous writers Pseudonymous women writers