Chinese writer, Deputy to the National People’s Congress (NPC). In March 2009, he was elected the Chairman of Sichuan Writers Association and Member of Presidium of the Eighth National Committee of China Writers Association.

Major Works: 

Poetry: Leng Mo River; Novel Collection: Old Year’s Blood, A Silversmith in the Moonlight; Full-length Novel: Settled, Empty, King Gesar; Proses: Earth Ladder, etc.

Major Awards: 

In 2000, he won the Fifth Mao Dun Literary Prize for his first full-length novel Settled as the youngest and first Tibetan winner of the prize. In 2018, he was awarded the Seventh Lu Xun Literature Prize for Novellas for his work Mushroom Circle.