Dai Sijie China/France

Bio
Dai Sijie was born in China in 1954. Because he came from an educated middle-class family, the Maoist government sent him to a re-education camp in rural Sichuan during the Cultural Revolution. He later completed high school and university, where he studied art history. In 1984, he left China for France on a scholarship. There, he acquired a passion for movies and became a director, making three critically-acclaimed feature films, including China, My Sorrow (1989). He also directed a 2002 adaptation of his bestselling debut novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2000). He now lives in Paris and writes in French.


What book would you like to snuggle under covers with, and why?
“I would love to take 3 books under the covers with me! They are Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise (Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress), Le Complexe de Di (Mr. Muo’s Traveling Couch) which won the Prix Femina in 2003 and Par une nuit où la lune ne s'est pas levée which was published in 2007 and translated to Once on a Moonless Night in 2009.”

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