Jiang Yun (1954) is an author from Taiyuan. Her major works include The Prisoner of the Oak Tree, My Inland, The Human World – Retelling of the Legend of the White Snake with Li Rui, Privyet! Anna and Beyond the Mountains. She has also published several short story collections, My Beloved Tree, Evening Prayer, Last Century’s Love, Lost Games and Waterfront Cloud Lodge. Her non-fiction works include the novel Northern Kitchen, and essay collections A Long Encounter, Green Plum and more.
She has won numerous awards, including the Lu Xun Literary Prize, the Lao She Literary Prize, the Yu Dafu Novel Prize, the Zhao Shuli Literary Prize, the Fiction Monthly Hundred Flowers Award and rankings from Harvest and October magazines. Privyet! Anna won the 2019 China Good Book Award and the Wu Cheng’en Novel Award. Her works have been translated into multiple languages, including English, French, Korean and Spanish. She retired in 2014 and currently resides in Beijing.