Dong Xi, also known as Tian Dai Lin, is a Chinese, multi-award-winning author with notable works including the novels Echo, Resounding Slap, Record of Regret, and Altered Destiny. The novel Echo was awarded the 11th Mao Dun Literary Prize and his novella Life Without Words received the inaugural Lu Xun Literary Prize. The film adaptation titled Lover in the Sky, based on the same novel, was also very successful, winning the Best Artistic Contribution Award at the 15th Tokyo International Film Festival. Several of his works have been adapted into television dramas and his writings have been published and then translated into multiple languages. Dong Xi now currently serves as a professor at Guangxi University for Nationalities.